CUTLEAF LILAC

Syringa laciniata

This unusual shrub has a mounding habit and grows slowly to about 6-8’.  The flowers are small, lavender-colored and fragrant.  The foliage, with it’s finely cut lobes, makes for a very unusual lilac indeed.  Besides its unique foliage, it is tolerant to heat, drought, and cold.  It grows and flowers well from Wisconsin to Georgia as well as in the Rocky Mountain states.  Hardiness to USDA zone 4.

COMMON LILACS

Syringa vulgaris

Common lilacs are large (to 15') deciduous shrubs with fairly upright growth in youth, becoming more spreading with age.  This classic group or plants is well known and scarcely needs description.  Lilacs are grown for their dense panicles of small, tubular flowers, which can be extremely fragrant.  Hardy to USDA zone 4, depending on the variety.

‘Adelaide Dunbar’ – fragrant, double purple flowers

‘Andenken an Ludwig Spaeth’ – (“Ludwig Spaeth’) single purple flowers

‘Avalanche’ – fragrant, large, single white flowers

‘Belle de Nancy’ – double pink flowers

‘Charm’ – single pink flowers

‘Charles X’ – single reddish flowers

‘Charles Joly’ – fragrant, double magenta flowers

‘Edward J. Gardner’ – double pink flowers

‘Fernand L. Pegot’ – double pink flowers

'Frederick Law Olmstead' - single white flowers

‘Katherine Havemeyer’ – fragrant, large, double bluish-pink flowers

‘Krasavitsa Muskovy’ – (‘Beauty of Moscow’) double white flowers

'Letha E. House' - fragrant, single lilac/rose flowers

 ‘Miss Ellen Willmott’ – double white flowers

‘Mme. Le Moine’ – double white flowers

‘Montaigne’ – double pink flowers

‘Nadezhda’ – large, double blue flowers

‘President Grevy’ – (“Pres. Grevy’) double blue flowers

‘Primrose’ – single yellowish flowers

‘Sensation’ – flowers single purplish-pink with white border, late*

*Please note: This variety, with its variegated flowers is inherently unstable.  We cannot guarantee that all plants will retain the variegated flower trait.

‘Wedgewood Blue’ – Lilac-pink opening to “blue”, fragrant , single