(Meyer Lilac)

The pleasing compact, mounded habit and pretty small panicles of rich lilac purple flowers make Meyer lilac an exceptional shrub for the landscape. This native of eastern Asia blooms in late spring to early summer and its flowers are sweetly fragrant. Like most lilacs, the following year's flower buds are set shortly after flowering, so prune directly after it blooms. The small, deep green, rounded leaves of this shrub change to golden-brown in the autumn.

This is an ideal shrub for foundation...

(Dwarf Korean Lilac, Meyer Lilac, Palibin Lilac)

The pleasing compact, mounded to spreading habit and numerous small panicles of lilac-pink flowers make Palabin lilac an exceptional shrub for the landscape. It flowers appear in late spring to early summer and are sweetly fragrant. Like most lilacs, the following year's flower buds are set shortly after flowering, so prune directly after it blooms. The small, deep green, rounded leaves of this shrub change to golden-brown in the autumn.

Enjoy ‘Palabin’ as a foundation shrub or in mixed borders....

(Korean Lilac)

The earliest-blooming lilac and arguably the best for fall foliage display, this hardy, easy to grow, and highly adaptable parent of Syringa x hyacinthiflora bears its broad conical clusters of fragrant lavender, purple, or white flowers from early to mid-spring, some 10 days before those of common lilac. A large rounded deciduous shrub from East Asia, it has broad heart-shaped leaves that are bronze-tinged when young and turn wine-purple in fall.

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(Korean Early Lilac)

The earliest-blooming lilac and arguably the best for fall foliage display, this hardy, easy to grow, and highly adaptable parent of Syringa x hyacinthiflora bears its broad conical clusters of fragrant lavender, purple, or white flowers from early to mid-spring, some 10 days before those of common lilac. A large rounded deciduous shrub from East Asia, it has broad heart-shaped leaves that are bronze-tinged when young and turn wine-purple in fall.

Plant this shrub in full to...

(Cheyenne Korean Early Lilac)

The earliest-blooming lilac and arguably the best for fall foliage display, this hardy, easy to grow, and highly adaptable parent of Syringa x hyacinthiflora bears its broad conical clusters of fragrant lavender, purple, or white flowers from early to mid-spring, some 10 days before those of common lilac. A large rounded deciduous shrub from East Asia, it has broad heart-shaped leaves that are bronze-tinged when young and turn wine-purple in fall.

Plant this shrub in full to...

(Korean Lilac, Manchurian Lilac)

Tougher and later blooming than the common lilac, the Korean lilac is an attractive bushy native of China and Korea. It boasts a pleasing mounded form and has soft green foliage that turns purple-red to maroon in the fall. In late spring to early summer, it puts forth many upright panicles of fragrant, pale purple flowers. The following year's flower buds are set shortly after flowering, so prune directly after it blooms.

This is an ideal shrub for foundation plantings or shrub borders. It needs...

(Korean Lilac, Manchurian Lilac, Miss Kim Lilac)

Tougher and later blooming than the common lilac, Miss Kim lilac is an attractive compact deciduous shrub with a pleasing mounded to round form. It has soft green foliage that turns purple-red to maroon in the fall. In late spring to early summer, it puts forth many upright panicles of fragrant, pale purple flowers that are dark purple in bud. The following year's flower buds are set shortly after flowering, so prune directly after it blooms.

This selection of Machurian lilac is an ideal shrub...

A highly variable, small to large shrub from slopes, woodlands, and river verges in China and Korea, this lilac is grown for its showy clusters of fragrant blooms that appear in spring and sometimes again in summer.

Pairs of oval to rounded, small to medium-sized leaves line the upright to arching branches of this twiggy, rounded, deciduous shrub. The gray-green to dark green leaves may be smooth or fuzzy. Foliage may turn red tints in fall. Conical to cylindrical clusters of purple, red, pink,...

A highly variable lilac from slopes, woodlands, and river verges in China and Korea, Syringa pubscens is grown for its showy clusters of fragrant blooms. Its subspecies microphylla bears lilac-pink flowers in spring and again in summer.

Pairs of small, downy, oval leaves line the upright to arching branches of this twiggy, rounded, medium-sized shrub. The mid-green to grayish-green leaves are paler underneath. Foliage may turn red tints in fall. Steeple-shaped clusters of tubular...

(Tree Lilac)

Showy cloud-like clusters of fragrant ivory blossoms cover this hardy and highly variable East Asian native long after most other lilacs have bloomed. Whether grown as a rounded multi-stemmed large shrub or as a single-trunked small tree, it offers ornamental interest at all seasons, thanks to its glossy dark brown cherry-like bark. The large clusters of tiny creamy-white flowers develop at the branch tips in late spring or early summer. They are privet-scented: sweet but with an undertone of cut...