I should have realized something was happening around here when my friends Larry and Sandra sent a picture of a lilac bush covered with leaves, each of which had developed a brown blotch. Then these ...

If your lilacs are looking rough right now, it is probably lilac leaf spot, a relatively new fungal disease in Minnesota. Symptoms typically appear from July to September. Leaves turn yellow, then ...

I have a very large, beautiful lilac bush. It's about 11 years old and 15 feet high. This year I cut numerous branches off of it where all of the leaves were completely dry. On other parts, the leaves ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn — Many of you have noticed your lilacs aren’t looking so great this year. The problem we’re seeing is Leaf Spot, a fungus that starts off as brown spots on the leaves and then ...

Plants and trees have been feeling the impact of Minnesota’s mild winter and wet spring that followed. Some people have seen their lilac bushes looking a bit different this year and experts are ...

Q: I have two well-established lilac bushes that always did well with minimal care until about two years ago. I used to water them for 2 to 3 minutes every day, but stopped doing that at one point.

The lush fragrance of lilacs is one of the delights of spring. Most neighborhoods have a few lilac bushes, covered in late April or early May with clusters of tiny purple flowers shaped like bunches ...