One early spring, our long-time friend, Ruth, offered my wife and me an opportunity to take a "start" from her dark purple lilac bush. We had admired its lovely deep purple blooms many times. Removing ...

The lilacs of Lilacia Park seemed to bloom early this spring. The Lombard Park District moved its “bloom 'o' meter” dial to “fully blooming” an entire week before the Lilac Queen coronation, a village ...

Lombard's lilacs are almost in full bloom, or so says the official "bloom 'o' meter." But it's not as if the showy flowers explode all at once in Lilacia Park, the epicenter of Lilac Time, a ...