Thought to be caused by Pseudocercospora or Septoria fungi, lilac leaf spot has been quietly spreading across the Midwest. It ...

Q. Last summer, we planted two small lilac bushes. Having grown up with lots of lilacs, I'm delighted to have them again. Some I have seen are more leaves than flowers in the spring while some are ...

Q: Last spring we planted 10 lilac bushes all in a row. It's an open yard with a lot of sun. What I want to know is what we can do in the spring to promote good growth as they ...

Other than smelling the massive, fluffy lilac bushes that color the island in pink and purple, my favorite part is hunting down the many lilac-themed treats scattered about.

Lilac bushes are not only fragrant, but they also add interest and color to any landscape, re-blooming year after year. Known as some of the hardiest shrubs around, lilacs are low-maintenance and ...

Many lilac bushes in Southcentral Alaska are showing brown spots on their leaves this year. (Photo by Jeff Lowenfels) I should have realized something was happening around here when my friends ...

And when early Americans moved west, they took the lilac with them, so today, when you’re on a country road and see a few seemingly-random lilac bushes, there was most likely a house or farm there in ...

This year, the National Garden Bureau, founded in 1920, designated 2022 the year of the lilac. There’s a nostalgia associated with the bush, part of the olive family. In the Midwest, they’re ...

Helen Rosner writes about the scent of lilac bushes when she was growing up in the Midwest, and about the social-media influencer Alexis Nikole Nelson, a.k.a. BlackForager, whose tutorial on how ...