White Lilac

Lilac
Originally uploaded by Natascha2008

Some French lilacs have double blooms. This white lilac is simple in its delicate petals, which will brown more quickly along the edges of the petals than the purple ones do. But they are beautiful when fully in bloom and smelling as sweet as honey. Plant both white and purple and cut them for your house in the early summer.

Purple Lilac

Lilac Find
Originally uploaded by deu49097

While growing up in Spokane, Washington, the lilacs heralded spring and the Lilac Parade and the crowning of the Lilac Princess. The blooming bushes wafted a sweet fragrance that could only be topped by the roses blooming come summer. Lilac was my favorite color and my bedroom curtains, bedspread and rugs where all handmade by my mother in a lilac plaid.