LILAC SEASON 🌸🌿💜 Lilacs, with their enchanting fragrance and stunning blooms, are a beloved addition to any garden. These woody shrubs, scientifically known as Syringa, captivate us with their clusters of delicate, aromatic flowers that range in colour from soft lavender and lilac to deep purple, white, and even yellow. Lilacs are not only a feast for the eyes and nose but also attract pollinators like bees and butterflies, contributing to a vibrant and flourishing ecosystem 🐝🌸🦋 With their

Let's talk about lilac! 💜 Common lilac, Syringa vulgaris, is a pretty ubiquitous plant. Most people can at least recognize the flowers and the smell, so it's a great plant for new foragers to dip their toes into the water that is edible flowers! Lilac can be a small shrub all the way to a small multi-stemmed tree. It's in the olive family, Oleaceae. Its species name, vulgaris, means 'common' or 'widespread'. Look for the following to positively ID common lilac! ✅ Oval or heart-shaped leaves tha

It’s lilac season here on the farm... - Floret Flower Farm

Lilac should only be pruned within two weeks of the flowers fading. Many people prune their lilac in the fall or early spring, and they cut the flower buds off. Shrubs also have way too many stems coming out of the base. Each plant every season has a finite amount of energy that it can produce with the roots and leaves that it has. If we have too many stems, then each stem is not getting very much energy out of the bank account and that is why we only get very small flowers on our lilac. So we n

Candied Lilac Recipe… Folklore, Facts and more! The blooming season of Lilacs may be short-lived, but it is highly loved! These white to deep purple blossoms not only decorate the sky with their vibrancy, but do so with their potent, floral fragrance that wafts through the air. Blooming usually between Beltane and Litha, the summer solstice, lilacs are actually a member of the olive family. Did you know? 😲 They are native to the Balkan Peninsula in Eastern Europe and are believed to have arrive