Ivory Silk Japanese Lilac is a smaller tree growing up to 15′ tall with a rounded crown. It has creamy white and amazingly fragrant flowers arranged in dense, terminal clusters (panicles up to 12″ long). It blooms in late May to mid-June, and later than most other varieties of lilac. It makes an outstanding fragrant flowering tree for any landscape with its beautiful flowering, hardiness, and bloom periods that are on full display long after most trees have ended their flowering. It attracts butterfly’s, hummingbirds, and pollinating insects. This tree has an attractive reddish-brown bark. USDA zones 5 -8
Syringa reticulata, ‘Ivory Silk’ Lilac Tree
$149.00
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