Crape myrtle The "lilac of the South" gets its name from its crinkly, crepelike flowers and from foliage that resembles the true myrtle. Although native to China and Japan, crapes carry on here as if ...

Quick, name a summer-blooming tree. Stumped? There aren’t many. Try Japanese tree lilac (Syringa reticulata) and Peking tree lilac (S. pekinensis). They may come late to the party, but they’re no ...

Ivor Novello’s famous song promised ‘We’ll gather lilacs in the spring’ – and you could be doing just that in your own garden with this reader offer.

Q: My 3-year-old lilac tree is doing so well and almost in full bloom. It’s still low and very bushy. My question is: When it’s done blooming, can I prune it? How do I do this? Also, please tell me a ...

WHAT a blessed relief it was to see the rain last week. The soil was parched dry several inches below the surface and some of the plants in our garden were beginning to suffer. This is worrying, but ...

Have you come to live in a home with a small yard? Perhaps you didn’t pay attention to the lack of space, or it was not a top concern when you moved in. But now you’ve come to realize that most trees ...

The biggest ceanothus, and earliest to flower, is the tree ceanothus which makes a large bush or a small tree, and is the most like lilac, with relatively large, broad evergreen leaves and large ...