Lilacs

Lilacs like full sun to part shade, neutral well drained soil, and good air circulation. A plant with great sentiment attached to it and NH’s State Flower. 
Sometimes requiring a little patience for it to flower, lilacs are hardy from Zone 3-7.

Please remember that lilacs set flower buds in July-August, so if it is really dry, this is a good time to supplement their water.  Feed 2x a year with a organic granular fertilizer. 

Vulgaris var. Alba - Common White Lilac- old fashioned single fragrant white flowers in late May into June, grows to 12-15’, extremely vigorous

Vulgaris - Common Purple Lilac- single purple flowers, extremely fragrant, growing to 12-15’, extremely vigorousV.

V. Albert F. Holden - A single blue-purple, bi-color effect

Beauty of Moscow - V. Krasavitsa Moskvy, double pale pink Pointy buds open to blush creamy white flowers- elegant flowers, grows to 10’

V. Ludwig Spaeth - single reddish-purplish flowers, grows 10 ’ x 12’

V. Ludwig Spaeth - single reddish-purplish flowers, grows 10 ’ x 12’

V. Mme Lemoine - double white flowers, grows to 8-10’

V. Monge - single dark purple flowers, grows 8 ’ x 10’

V. President Grevy - double blue flowers, grows 8 ’ x 10’

V. Sensation - striking single dark purple florets edged in white, grows to 8-10’

V. Volcan - deep purple, very fragrant

x. H. Pocohontas - blooming 1 week before French hybrids, deep violet flowers on 10-12’ plant, vigorous

x. Chinensis Saugeana - Chinese Lilac- single lilac red flowers, grows 10-12’, the foliage is finer than vulgaris giving this plant a more refined look in the landscape

x. Katherine Havermeyer - Double lavendar, pink flower

x. Lilac Sunday - Chinese Lilac - pale lavendar flowers

Meyeri Paliban - Dwarf Korean- lilac flowers in June, grows to a rounded 4’, great for low hedges, flowers at a young age.

Patula Miss Kim - purple buds to pale lavender flowers in late June, grows to 5-7’ and the only lilac w/ notable good burgundy fall color, developed by Dr. Elwyn Meader at UNH, he brought back one of the parents from a mountainside in Korea.