Behind the house, on its north, is a large group of lilacs.

First, lilacs need full sun, at least eight hours each day.

She would go in behind the lilac and shut me out.

Many of the poor people along the street grew lilacs.

However, his work was by no means confined to lilacs.

She smelled of lilac and he let her walk on.

And second, lilacs can take six or seven years to bloom.

I love the fragrance of lilacs, and so does my mother.

This is the standard work on lilacs, first published in 1988.

That one, I hope, will return when the lilacs are next in bloom.

There is one final step for anyone who grows lilacs.

He was standing by the table, one hand brushing over the lilacs.

And then the study air filled with the scent of lilacs.

Like most lilacs, it needs to be planted in full sun.

The next floor down was all guest rooms, Lilac said.

"I believe you have a family secret," he said to Lilac.

The most drastic approach would be to cut the entire lilac to near ground level.

Who lit the lilacs, and which end up do they hang?

A. Lilacs have to grow for a few years before they start flowering.

When the lilacs grow some more, it'll be solid green over there.

The park has 22 acres of lilacs, more than 500 varieties in all.

The men with the lilac, I have to say, fought like tigers.

"It's considered to be the most fragrant of all the lilacs."

Cammy turned her face away from what Lilac was doing.

It looked like a different variety from the lilacs in the Midwest.

The blue, white or lilac flowers are held in umbels.

He stared at me; those lilac eyes sparkled through the fall of all that hair.

It felt like it took a long time to look up his body, and find that familiar face with those lilac eyes.

With that in mind, she'd donned a pretty lilac flowered dress.

It produces a solitary white, pink or lilac flower at the beginning of spring.

"So you wouldn't make purple or lilac toys for that market.

It produces tiny white or lilac flowers in late summer and fall and loves the sun.

But then again, not exactly lilac either, since it had a tinge of grey in it.

The flowers are small and fragrant, with five pale purple or lilac petals, growing in clusters.

White or lilac flowers form at the end of stalks or on leaf axils.

Pale blue or lilac flowers are produced from November to January in the species native range.

The two to four white or lilac eggs are blotched with grey, purple or brown.

It crashed against the wall, knocking down a gilt-framed picture of purple flowers in a dark green and lilac field.

Fred shook his bald, lilac head miserably.

She was also sometimes called the "purple witch" or "lilac dragon" due to her tinted hair and hardline political views.

It has lilac flowers.

The woman donned the white silk mask, which seemed to light up her face and her light, close-fitting, lilac dress.

Apple trees are taking on a hazy green, lilac buds are swelling and shad bush seems ready to blossom.

His place here, breathing the scented, lilac air, stars glimmering at his zenith, was unassailable.

She made a half-turn so she fully faced Shar and paused, willing him to meet her wide, lilac eyes.

It has white and lilac flowers, pods from 10 to 20 cm in length and beans with a high protein content (32%).

A typical character of the representatives of the tribe are the flowers - They are with blue or lilac color collected into an umbel.

In a place of honor among the other original Little League memorabilia he installed a glass case containing the very lilac bush that gave the game its start.

For flowering interest plant Iris unguicularis, which seems to produce an almost constant supply of delicately scented, lilac flowers during mid winter.

The nape of the neck is lilac gray with chestnut streaks, and the back is streaked with brown and beige.

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.

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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.