Description of the 25 best varieties of lilac with photos and names

If you have decided to plant lilacs in your garden and are now busy looking for a suitable variety, then this article is for you.

On this page we have selected the most beautiful and frost-resistant varieties of lilacs with names and photos. Descriptions and characteristics of plants are given so that you can imagine what a lilac bush will be like when it grows.

Content: Beautiful varieties of white lilac Lilac lilac The best varieties of red lilac Low-growing and dwarf varieties of lilac

White varieties of lilac

Madame Casimir Perier

• The shrub is medium-sized, compact.
• The buds are creamy when opening. Large double flowers of a light cream color can reach up to 2 cm in diameter. The petals, rising, cover the center of the flower, giving it volume. The inflorescences contain 2-4 pairs of wide-pyramidal panicles, 16-20 cm in length.
• Flowering is long, occurring in late May - early June for 3 weeks.
• The variety is used for early forcing of lilacs.
• Winter hardiness is high.

Recommended for use as a tapeworm and in tree and shrub compositions.

Madame Lemoine

• A rounded shrub 3-4 m high, with upright growing shoots.
• Large cream buds give rise to snow-white double flowers with a diameter of up to 2.5 cm. The petals of the lower row are rounded, the inner ones are pointed. The inflorescences are large, consisting of 2-3 tight panicles, up to 20 cm long.
• A late-blooming lilac variety that blooms in June. It has abundant and long-lasting flowering.
• Frost resistance is high.

One of the best old white varieties. Widely spread. Used in landscaping for single and group plantings in the form of a standard form, as well as for cutting and late forcing

Beauty of Moscow

• A diamond in the Russian lilac collection. The shrub is medium-sized, spreading.
• The mauve buds develop into large double flowers that, when blooming, change color from soft pearl pink to white with a pink tint.The inflorescences are large, vertical, and consist of 1-2 pairs of sparse panicles.
• Flowering is moderate, but long, in the middle or mid-late period. The inflorescences retain their attractiveness for 15-20 days, gradually changing color to white.
• Winter-hardy variety.

If there is a lilac in heaven, then this is the “Beauty of Moscow”!” Colin Chapman

Memory of Kolesnikov

• Medium-sized bushes with strong gray branches.
• Cream buds, blooming, turn into snow-white flowers. The flowers are double, huge (up to 3 cm in diameter). The rounded petals, rising, incline towards the center. Large inflorescences, consisting of two pyramidal panicles, diverge in different directions from each other.
• This variety of lilac pleases with fragrant, abundant and long-lasting flowering.

A distinctive feature is that this variety does not set seeds.

Primrose

• Dense bushes 3 m high, 2.5 m in diameter.
• The buds have a yellow tint. The flowers are simple, light yellow at the beginning of flowering, when blooming they become white-cream, 1.5 cm in diameter. The petals are elongated. Multi-apical inflorescences of 2-4 pairs of large panicles.
• Blooms intensively, in medium terms.

Primrose calmly tolerates drought and frost. Suitable for growing in the Moscow region.

Lilac varieties

Lila Wonder

• Bushes with vertical shoots, dense, up to 2.5 m high. Crown with a diameter of 1.5 m.
• The flowers are simple two-color, light purple with a white border. The inflorescences are small, dense, pyramidal in shape.
• Flowering occurs in late May - early June.
• Winter-hardy lilac variety.

Used as tapeworms, to form alleys, in compositions with trees and shrubs.

Frank Paterson

• Medium-sized shrub with a rounded crown.
• The buds are dark purple. Flowers with a more saturated violet-purple color, large, do not fade in the sun. The dense texture of the petals creates the illusion that the simple cup flowers are made of wax. Large multi-paniculate dense inflorescences droop under their weight.
• Flowering is moderate, in medium terms.
• Winter-hardy lilac variety.

Leonid Leonov

• The bush is medium, spreading. The buds are large and look like cups when they bloom.
• The variety has a two-color effect. On the outside, the petals are light purple, and closer to the center the purple color deepens.
• This variety of lilac blooms annually and is characterized by abundant and long-lasting flowering.

The variety Leonid Leonov is deservedly among the seven best purple lilacs in the whole world

    Sensation

• Shrub 3 m high, 3 m in diameter, with a sparse crown.
• The buds are purple. The flowers are two-color, simple, large. The petals are painted purple with a white border along the edge and have a concave shape. 1-2 pairs of panicles make up inflorescences of medium density.
• Blooms moderately, late.

A sensation of very rare coloring - with a border along the edge of the flower. Considered one of the best varieties in the world.

    Lights of Donbass (Ogni Donbassa)

• Bush up to 3 m high, spreading. The buds are dark purple with a red tint.
• The flowers are double and large. The color of the petals is purple-lilac, lighter at the tips, resistant to fading.The inflorescences are dense, formed from two panicles measuring 20 cm x 10 cm.
• It blooms in May on old shoots, very profusely.

    Minchanka

• Medium-sized, spreading shrub.
• Large four-petaled lilac-violet flowers bloom from purple-lilac buds that do not fade in the sun. In the core of the flower the color is much darker and more saturated. The inflorescences are compact, narrow, pyramidal in shape (30 cm x 12 cm), covering the bush from bottom to top.
• Flowering is abundant, in medium terms.

    Condorcet

• Large bushes up to 4 m tall.
• The blue-violet buds set off the small bluish-purple flowers. The shape of the flowers is semi-double, sometimes simple. The edges of the oval petals are raised to the top. Inflorescences consist of 2-4 pairs of loose, large ribbed panicles.
• Flowering is abundant, but not every year, in the middle periods (second half of May - June).
• Winter hardiness is average.

    Dawn of Communism (Zarya Kommunizma)

• Low shrub, up to 2 m, wide.
• The lilac-purple buds combine beautifully with the purplish-red flowers. The middle of the flower has a more saturated shade. The variety is notable for its large flower size (up to 3 cm) and abundant, long-lasting flowering.
• At the end of flowering, the elongated oval petals bend in a spiral. Large inflorescences consist of two panicles (22 cm x 10 cm).

At first this variety was called “Glory to Stalin,” but not for long.

Red varieties of lilac

    Etoile de Mai

• Shrub 3 m high, 2.5 m in diameter, with thick short shoots.
• Dark purple buds turn into double flowers of purple color, up to 1.8 cm in diameter.The flower petals are spherically curled towards the center of the flower; the lower petals are lighter, almost white.
• The variety is characterized by moderate flowering in May-June.
• Frost-resistant variety.

    India

• The height of an adult plant is 2.5 m, diameter - 2 m.
• The buds are medium-sized, purple-violet. The flowers are simple in shape, very large, the edges of the petals are slightly raised. The shade of the petals is purple-violet with a red-copper tint and does not fade in the sun. The inflorescences are long (30 cm), large, and consist of 2-3 pairs of wide pyramidal panicles.
• Flowering is moderate, annual, in May-June.
• Despite the name, winter hardiness is high.

Can be grown as an indoor and greenhouse crop. Easily formed as a standard tree or in bonsai style.

    Red Moscow (Krasnaya Moskva)

• A tall shrub, can reach 4 m in height and up to 3 m in width.
• The buds are violet-purple. The flowers are medium-sized, dark purple with yellow stamens, and do not fade in the sun. Dense inflorescences consist of 2 panicles in the form of wide pyramids measuring 18 cm x 9 cm.
• Flowering is not too abundant in the middle period.
• Winter-hardy variety.

    Olimpiada Kolesnikova

• Tall shrub, up to 3 m tall, with straight, long, dark shoots.
• The buds are violet-purple, favorably emphasized by the pink double flowers. Each flower consists of 2-3 corollas. The petals of the lower corollas are elongated, curved, the upper petals are smaller, lighter and curled towards the center.
• The flowers are huge, up to 3 cm in diameter, bloom profusely and for a long time. The inflorescences consist of a pair of large (28 cm x 15 cm), vertical panicles.

A wonderful variety of lilac was bred by Soviet breeder Leonid Kolesnikov in 1941. He dedicated it to his wife - the Olympics.

Persian (red)

• A fast-growing small bush 1 to 2 m high. The flowers are pale lavender in color. The inflorescences are small, evenly distributed throughout the bush. The length of the flower panicles is about 10 cm.
• Flowering begins in mid-May.
• Frost-resistant variety. Rarely found in amateur gardening.

    James Macfarlane

• Large shrub (3 m x 3 m), with upright growing shoots.
• The buds are elongated, red-burgundy. The flowers are pink, simple, collected in loose long inflorescences (25 cm).
• It blooms later than ordinary lilac, two weeks in June.
• Frost-resistant variety.

The plant is hardy, frost-resistant, and, unlike varieties of common lilac, resistant to high soil moisture.

    Maiden's Blush

• Compact low bushes (2.5 m x 2 m).
• The elongated buds are painted in a rich, soft purple color. Simple flowers are collected from 4-5 semicircular petals, painted pink with a light pearly coating. The inflorescences are large, reminiscent in shape and color of hydrangea inflorescences.
• Flowering is abundant and early.

Low-growing varieties of lilac

  Meyer lilac Tinkerbell

• A dwarf lilac variety with a height and diameter of up to 1.5 m.
• The buds are painted in a bright cherry shade. The flowers are soft pink, small (0.5-0.6 cm). Cone-shaped inflorescences evenly cover the entire bush.
• Blooms later, at the end of May - the first half of June, abundant.

This variety of lilac has a unique property - it blooms again in early autumn.Pruning is required immediately after flowering, since flower buds form only on summer shoots.

    Monge

• Compact bush, up to 2 m high.
• The purple-red buds combine beautifully with the dark purple-red flowers of a simple shape. The flowers are large, up to 3 cm, do not fade in the sun, and bloom for a long time. The inflorescence is formed from 2-3 pairs of long panicles, 12 cm wide.
• The variety is abundantly flowering and frost-resistant.

According to the authoritative opinion of international experts, it is one of the seven best varieties of the World collection, belonging to purple lilacs of group VII!

    Captain Baltet

• Shrub with a spreading crown up to 1.5 m high.
• Purple-pink buds give way to delicate lilac-pink flowers with blue-gray shadows. The flowers are simple, large in size (up to 3 cm), with bright yellow stamens. The inflorescences are large, formed from 1-3 pairs of sparse panicles, which cover the entire bush.
• Flowering is abundant, in medium terms.
• Frost resistance is high.

    Pink Perfume

• A low shrub, 90 cm high, 120-180 cm wide.
• Dark pink buds set off the lilac-pink flowers. Inflorescences up to 10 cm long, 7.5 cm wide, are well suited for cutting.
• Frost-resistant variety.

Repeat flowering variety. The first flowering occurs in June, then again at the end of summer until the first frost. To improve re-blooming, it is recommended to cut off faded inflorescences.

    Red Pixie

• The bush is dense, compact, up to 170 cm in height and 120 cm in diameter.
• The buds are purple-red.Large tubular flowers gradually change color from bright red to bright pink, then to light pink with a red border around the edges. Inflorescences are paniculate, 12-14 cm long.
• Flowering is abundant in May-June, sometimes repeated in mid-August for 20 days.
• Winter hardiness is high.

    Schoolgirl

• A low-growing variety of lilac up to 1.5 m in height and very spreading, its width can reach 2-2.5 m.
• Flowering in medium terms. Inflorescences are formed on the shoots, consisting of 3-4 panicles, strewn with large flowers up to 2.5 cm in diameter.

This lilac is an amazing sight - small ball bushes are abundantly strewn with huge bouquets of fragrant flowers

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