Syringa meyeri Flowerfesta White - Lilac

The Syringa Flowerfesta 'White', like all lilacs from the new Flowerfesta series, is a very hardy bush, small in size, highly floriferous, perpetual and fragrant, perfectly suited to small gardens and pots to adorn the terrace or balcony. Its clusters of single flowers first violet pink when they are in buds, bloom white. They are larger than those of most varieties derived from Syringa meyeri and are produced abundantly in spring, sometimes more sporadically during the summer and very often again in September-October. Not demanding, economical in water, it will also look good in a small flowering hedge, planted in a group or even as a single near the house.

The lilac Flowerfesta 'White' is a recent horticultural creation, belonging to a series of lilacs developed in recent years in the Netherlands. It comes from the Syringa meyeri, native to Northern China, although it has never been found in the wild. The bushes of the Flowerfesta series were selected for their colour, their floriferous nature, the size of their inflorescences and their strongly perpetual character. They come in white, pink and purple. All these plants belong to the oleaceae family.

This lilac naturally forms a rounded, compact and ramified bush, as wide as it is high. When mature, it will not exceed 1.25 m (4 ft 1 in) in all directions. Its growth is quite slow, encouraged by rich and fresh soil. This variety blooms from a young age, abundantly in April-May, a few days before common lilacs, in the form of pleasantly fragrant thyrsus, 10 to 14 cm (3.9 to 5.5 in) long, composed of small single flowers, of pure white colour, even in buds. These inflorescences are grouped in bouquets at the end of the previous year's shoots, then again at the end of summer or beginning of autumn, at the end of the year's branches. This flowering attracts a good number of butterflies and pollinating insects. Its foliage, deciduous, is composed of small elliptical leaves 2 to 4 cm (0.8 to 1.6 in) long, of a medium green.

Whther it is the fragrance, flowers, childhood memories or even as a symbol of a significant event, everyone has a good reason to love lilacs, as endearing as they are devoid of pretension. The Flowerfesta 'White' Lilac perfectly suits a small garden or on a terrace, wherever space is counted. Perfectly hardy, easy to grow in ordinary but drained soil, even in cold or dry region, not demanding, it adapts to all styles of gardens and to all our climates. It constitutes a major element for a scent garden, its flowering accompanying that of brooms, and pink or white genets. It can also be planted in large borders, in groups, as a single or in the form of a free hedge mixed with other trees (flowering apple trees, Japanese cherry trees, Chinese almond trees, forsythias, Japanese quinces, Deutzias...). Its deliciously fragrant clusters are appreciated in spring bouquets, in the company of the first garden irises, early peonies, campanulas and florist's ranunculus.