Syringa hybride Bloomerang Dark Purple - Lilac

The Syringa Bloomerang 'Dark Purple' is a superb novelty from the exceptional series of scented Bloomerang lilacs, promising a bright future in our gardens. Perhaps even more so than its siblings, it offers a perpetual flowering until autumn, but its flowering is even more opulent, composed of more voluptuous clusters where dark purple floral buds and single, lavender-blue, highly fragrant florets mingle. Its slightly more significant growth makes it a truly magnificent bush, whether standalone in a small garden or in a flowering hedge.

The Lilac 'Bloomerang Dark Purple' belongs to the Oleaceae family. It forms a deciduous bush with a compact, bushy and shrubby habit, rising to 1.60 m (5 ft 2 in)-1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) (up to 1.80m (5 ft 11 in)), and barely wider than tall, with foliage consisting of small dark green deciduous leaves. Its growth is quite slow and its vegetation very dense. Its lineage includes four different species of lilacs, it is a hybrid of Syringa patula x macrophylla x meyeri x juliana. This variety flowers abundantly in spring, takes a rest period until midsummer, during the high heat, before resuming, quite intensely, until the first frosts. The flowering attracts a good number of butterflies.

Easy to grow in ordinary soil, very vigorous and long-lived, the Syringa 'Bloomerang Dark Purple' is a valuable asset for the garden, with its late summer resurgence that will accompany that of the perpetual roses and flowering bushes of large asters. It can be planted at the edge of a grove, in front of taller trees, in groups, standalone near the house, or as a free hedge mixed with flowering apple trees, Japanese cherry trees, Chinese almond trees, Japanese quinces, deutzias etc. Its beautiful fragrant clusters are appreciated in bouquets, in the company of garden irises, campanulas and peonies, in spring, or asters and gauras in autumn.

The lilac, king of our unpretentious gardens, owes its fame to the work and imagination of French nurserymen, in particular Victor Lemoine, who is at the origin of most varieties still grown today. That's why in English-speaking countries, we talk about the 'French Lilac' to evoke this bush full of resources and so endearing.