Did you know that the life expectancy of lilacs is 350 years or more? Lilacs planted by French missionaries in 1650 on Michigan's Mackinac Island are the oldest surviving lilacs in America. Lilacs not ...

A bouquet — the Scent of Lilacs award — to SANDAG and Caltrans for working together to buy Rancho Lilac, a 902-acre prize in the northwest reaches of Valley Center. For more than 20 years, this ...

Lilacs, along with most other flowers, seem to be blooming much earlier this year in Iowa. Flowers that we'd usually see on Mother's Day are in full bloom now. If your lilacs aren't performing well ...

There is nothing more enticing than the scent of lilac wafting through the door on a warm spring morning. These very fragrant lilacs outside my door belong to a large group of flowering shrubs and ...

WOODLAND — Carol Keffeler’s 89-year-old mother didn’t feel up to exploring the Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens on Sunday afternoon. “I’ll just bring some flowers to you, then,” Keffeler told her mom.

It’s almost my daughter’s birthday and lilacs are a part of that very sweet memory. They were in full bloom the day she was born and everyone that came to welcome her brought a big, sweet, lilac ...

Late April and early May in the Northwest are high season for all kinds of lilacs. They are coming into full bloom and their heavenly fragrance is enough to put even this cantankerous gardener into a ...