Lilac season is here!💜💜💜✨ Two of the most important steps when growing lilacs: Lilacs are sun lovers and need at least 6 hours of direct light per day in order to flower to their fullest potential. Lilacs that are planted in full shade will be leggy and sparse, with little to no blooms. If you find that your lilac is suddenly shaded due to maturing trees or nearby shrubs, consider having the tree canopies limbed back or thinned out. On reblooming varieties deadheading lilacs after the first w

Let's talk about lilac! 💜 Common lilac, Syringa vulgaris, is a pretty ubiquitous plant. Most people can at least recognize the flowers and the smell, so it's a great plant for new foragers to dip their toes into the water that is edible flowers! Lilac can be a small shrub all the way to a small multi-stemmed tree. It's in the olive family, Oleaceae. Its species name, vulgaris, means 'common' or 'widespread'. Look for the following to positively ID common lilac! ✅ Oval or heart-shaped leaves tha