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Outstanding Features:
Outstanding floral display and fragrance.
Description:
Height: 8-12'
Width: 8-10'
Hardiness Zone: 3b
Chinese Lilac is a large round-headed shrub that can be used as a single specimen or as a background border or screening planting. It produces an excellent floral display in early May. Typical flower color is lilac purple, but white and deeper purple forms are available. Flowers are produced in 4-5" long panicles after the foliage emerges. It is a profuse bloomer with fragrant flowers covering much of the plant. Makes an attractive unsheared hedge.
Requirements and Culture:
Lilacs prefer a rich well drained soil. Although they will grow in light shade, they will develop a more dense plant habit and flower much better when grown in full sun. Renewal pruning to remove a few older canes each year will help keep the plant full to the base. Prune after flowering for best landscape effect.
Limitations:
Powdery mildew often covers the foliage in
late summer, especially in shady and wind protected locations. Borers
and oyster shell scale can also become a problem.
Selected Cultivars:
'Alba'- has white flowers.
'Saugeana'- has lilac-red flowers.
Photo Credit:
2 & 3 MLA.
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CHINESE LILAC Syringa x chinensis