If you have a lilac bush and want to enjoy its aromatic flowers longer, whip up a simple syrup to add to spring cocktails and other drinks. Here's how to do it.

Walt Whitman holds the sprig of lilac by its supple woody stem, holds it to his great-bearded face and breathes in its sensuous perfume. The unmistakable scent works on his poet’s brain ...

2. Harvest blossoms for culinary delights.. With a few bushes in our backyard, my favorite thing to make this time of year is lilac simply syrup—I use it in tea, lemonade, cocktails, even ...

Literally a puzzle, he is The Enigma and he will be here this weekend for the third annual Lilac City Tattoo Expo. Skip to main content Spokane, Washington Est. May 19, 1883 ...

Reduce Lilac Bush Size. To make your plant a little shorter, remove several of the larger stems to ground level. This will encourage new growth at the base of the plant.

And it’s not too late to plant a lilac bush if you want to give them a try. Lilacs require full sunshine to be at their best and quite a bit of room. Even the shorter ones tend to spread out a lot.

If you've purchased a lilac bush in Lombard over the years, chances are you bought it from Marge Neely. And if you've ridden on a Lilac Parade float, you've undoubtedly waved to Marge Neely. A 70 ...

The lilac bushes were coming on, and I was still wearing a warm hat. I was watching closely because I needed some lilac-aroma therapy, a deep and mysterious comforting of the mind that comes from ...

Common lilac (Syringa vulgaris) bushes can get 15 to 20 feet tall. They usually have several stems. The strongly fragrant flowers appear in mid-May and are the eponymous lilac, white or various ...

A dispute involving the illegal destruction of a well-known lilac bush in Aspen’s West End may be close to resolution. A contractor removed the large old lilac from a piece of public land in an alley ...

DERBY The French lilac is now the city s official flowering bush. DERBY The French lilac is now the city s official flowering bush. New Haven Register Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo.