Common lilac is a popular flowering shrub easily grown just about anywhere as long as it has adequate drainage around the soil. It is often seen in household yards and often as additions to windbreak rows. Grown mostly for its wonderful spring flower fragrance and beautiful flowers. Other uses include essential oils and green/yellow dyes.
The common lilac is an old-fashioned, long-lived, and well-loved lilac best known for its fragrant flowers. It is extremely hardy and thrives with little care which makes it a lovely shrub for a specimen planting, in masses, screens, hedges, or mixed in shrub borders. The May blooming flowers are typically purple to lilac but cultivars also come in magenta, pink and white.
