| Description | Lilac Sensation (Syringa vulgaris) has bi colored flowers. The purple petals have a white edge. A large Lilac reaching 8-15 feet tall. |
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| Pronunciation | (si-RING-gah)(vul-GAIR-iss) |
| Plant Type | Shrubs Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 3-7 |
| Sunlight | full, I have been asked many times "Why doesn't my Lilac flower as good as before". The reason is usually the amount of light. Many plants are shaded as the trees grow larger around them and also many Lilacs are plant in one direction light. This means one side has more flowers more than the other |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average, doesn't like soggy wet |
| Flowers | single deep purple with a white edge, borne in an upright panicle, fragrant |
| Fruit | beaked dehiscent capsule |
| Leaves | simple, green leaves, heart shaped , little if any fall color, may suffer from powdery mildew in the fall, best planted where it has good air circulation, multiple stems |
| Stems | raised lenticels on stems |
| Dimensions | 10-15 feet tall with a spread of 10-12 feet, too large for use near the house, best used as specimen plants or in shrub borders, can be used in corner plantings as long as given 6-8 feet from the corner |
| Maintenance | Since Lilacs bloom on next season’s wood, prune after they are done blooming. There are many different ways to prune a Lilac. The most drastic is to cut them down to the ground. I have had ones sucker back and regrow while others that didn't make it using this method. You can cut out the old stems and let the new suckers fill in thinning them to the desired amount. On many old plants we have removed all the suckers and left a few of the old stalks. Pruning them up to bare base stems, turning the plant into a small tree. Drastic pruning may delay flowering a few years. |
| Propagation | division of a suckers, cuttings |
| Cultivar Origin | The first bi-colored lilac introduced in 1938 by Eveleens Maarse. A mutation of Lilac Hugo de Vries. |
| Author's Notes | I have always liked this Lilac. The flowers have a white edge (picotee) |
| Notes & Reference | #1-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, #93-North American Landscape Trees, #104-Lilacs “A Gardeners Encyclopedia”(Fiala) |
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