What is lilac?
Bush Lilac ( syringa spp.) is a flowering forest plant from southeastern Europe and East Asia, commonly cultivated as a garden plant. There are about 20 or 25 different types of lilac shrubs. Several hybrids and cultivars were also developed, including the popular French lilac, which contains double flowers or flowers with other petals.
Lilac flowers bloom in spring and are usually sweet smelling. They grow in large clusters, or panicles , and can be pale to medium purple, pink, white, yellow or even dark red. A special shade of light purple was named Lilac on the bush of lilac. The wood shrub is very hard and one of the densest European forests. Traditionally, it is used to produce knife mounts, musical instruments, including reed tubes and flutes and other crafts, as well as engraving. After pruning, lilac, the shrub does not have to flow at all for five or more years, while a plant that is not reliably cut every year.If the plant is cut, it should be done immediately after the flowering season. Shah shrubs prefer alkaline soil and require good air circulation, without which they are susceptible to powder mold development.
Purple Lilacs symbolized the first love in the Victorian flower language, while the white lilacs symbolized youthful innocence. Lilac Bush is also called Paschalia in Cyprus, Greece and Lebanon, because it blooms around Easter and is associated with holiday. Syring vulgaris or a common lilac is the state flower New Hampshire.
s. vulgaris and s. x Persica or the Persian lilac, both were introduced to Western European gardens from the gardens of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the 16th century. s. The lilacs were introduced to the present United States in the 18th century.
The annual Lilac festivals take place in many American cities, while the longest run in Rochester, New York. The Rochester Lilac festival has been held since 1898 in the Highland Park, which today boasts over 500 varieties of Bush Lilac. The festival contains live entertainment, including a show. The annual celebrations of Lila are also held in Lombard, Illinois; Spokane, Washington; Mackinac Island in Michigan; and Arbold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts. Lilac Sunday, celebrated in Arnold Arboretum every May, is the only day of the year when picnics are allowed in the arboretum.