He stopped in front of the common lilac, or Syringa vulgaris.

Its leaves don't curl or turn white with mildew in the fall, like the old-time common lilacs.

It's not hard to find eight-foot common lilacs at well-stocked garden centers, and as a bonus you'll have one hole to dig instead of two.

Common Lilac (Syringa vulgaris) is a species of plant.

But make sure you plant Syringa vulgaris purpurea, the old common lilac near the kitchen window, because it is the one for fragrance.

Common lilacs (Syringa vulgaris) and the French hybrids based on them are especially sensitive in this regard.

Miss Kim is known for mildew-proof leaves and fragrant lavender flowers that bloom later and longer than the common lilac.

The garden is framed by European honeysuckle, lavender, old roses species, common Lilac, lilies, summer flowers and fruit trees.

The larvae feed on common lilac, green ash, poplar, aspen, cottonwood and trembling aspen.

The larvae feed on Fraxinus excelsior, Ligustrum and Common Lilac.

Though the common lilac originated in Eastern Europe, it is as much a part of the New England landscape as stone walls and old barns.

Dr. Herms found, for example, that while studying the pine needle scale closely, he observed that its hatch coincided with bloom on the common lilac.

They also pass right by pieris, or Japanese andromeda, as well as the common lilac (though they love Korean and and Persian varieties, the snobs).

These plants are much more finicky and require a modicum of proper care, especially cutting out of suckers of common lilac on which many hybrids are grafted.

As a result of his accomplishments, the term French lilac has come to mean all cultivars of the common lilac that have double flowers, regardless of their origin.

The larvae feed on various shrubs, deciduous trees and herbaceous plants, including Common Lilac, Apple, Rose and Prunus spinosa.

For example, birch leaf miner is vulnerable when the common lilac is not quite finished blooming, and peach tree borers are best treated when the mock orange blooms.

S. oblata, S. hyacinthiflora and S. vulgaris, the common lilac, are the early birds, and vulgaris may bloom for over a month, depending on the variety.

The Common Lilac cultivar 'Andenken an Ludwig Späth' (French: 'Souvenir de Louis Spaeth') is named in his honour.

Syringa vulgaris (lilac or common lilac) is a species of flowering plant in the olive family Oleaceae, native to the Balkan Peninsula, where it grows on rocky hills.

The Lilac Festival is a ten-day annual festival held in honor of the common lilac at Mackinac Island in the U.S. state of Michigan.

Miss Kim's flower buds are still tightly closed, because she blooms just after S. vulgaris, or the common lilac, which seems to remind everyone of grandmothers and porches and nice things like that.

Common lilac tends to flower profusely in alternate years, a habit that can be improved by deadheading the flower clusters after the color has faded and before seeds, few of which are fertile, form.

Although most of the hybridization work was done with the common lilac Syringa vulgaris, which is quite hardy and needs the cold New England winters to perform, there are other lilacs of outstanding merit.

I made the mistake of asking Mr. Rawdon if he carried the Japanese tree lilac (Syringa amurensis japonica), whose fragrant, creamy-white flowers bloom about a month after the common lilac.

Common Lilac (Syringa vulgaris) is a species of plant.

Syringa vulgaris (I)

The adults feed on the nectar of various flowers, including Syringa vulgaris, Geranium robertianum, Kolkwitzia amabilis, Philadelphus coronarius, and Phlox.

The larvae feed on Prunus (including Prunus serotina), Malus, Syringa vulgaris, Amelanchier nantuckensis and Celtis occidentalis.

It was found in the UK in 1992 in the roots of Sambucus tenuifolium and Lilac (Syringa vulgaris), in 2003 it was found in a UK nursery infecting a Rhododendron ponticum.