Lilac Madame Lemoine

Cottage garden favourite.

I'll never forget the lilacs growing in my elderly neighbours garden.

As a child we used to sit on deckchairs in the summer shade given by these and eat choc ices whilst their magnificent and intoxicating floral scent drifted around us.

Their lilacs were lilac in colour.

This lilac is a beauty with a scent to match those from my childhood days yet with tightly packed clusters of white double petaled flowers from yellow buds. Their light green heart shaped leaves turn red, orange and then golden in autumn before falling for winter dormancy.

Lilacs are officially know as their latin name Syringa vulgaris.

Supplied as a 3 litre shrub which is approximately 50cm tall