It is a sun-loving, moist and well-drained plant for the garden, with large, showy inflorescences that cover the entire plant in spring and are highly fragrant.

A well-known flowering tree for the garden, lilacs are relatively large plants with strong roots and should be grown in deep clay pots, either square or round.

The colour of the pot should preferably be light blue or light yellow to match the white and purple lilacs.

Choose strong lilac seedlings and plant them in pots in February to March.

Prune the roots before planting, keeping a little more of the fibrous roots, and plant them so that the roots are spread out and the soil is compacted so that the soil is tightly bound to the roots.

Then just water thoroughly.

So how should I raise lilacs?

1. Watering

Lilacs are very adaptable and relatively carefree.

As long as you pay attention to timely weeding and watering when the soil is dry and not waterlogged, you can grow normally.

As for the frequency of watering, there are no strict requirements, when dry, water.

2. Temperature

Lilacs like a warm and humid environment and are native to the equatorial rainforest climate, with a certain degree of cold tolerance.

The best growing temperature is between 15 and 20°C.

When the temperature falls below 3°C, the plant will die of frostbite. Lilacs like full sun and are slightly shade tolerant, so take care to keep the plant in a sunny spot.

3.Turn the pot and prune

Every 2 to 3 years, you need to change the pot of the lilac, take the plant out of the pot, prune the root system.

Cut out the old roots and replace them with new soil to promote the growth of new roots.

Every year, before the lilacs sprout in mid-March, prune them, cutting off overly dense, thin, diseased and insect-ridden branches and cutting off the vigorous growth in the middle.

After the leaves have fallen, a pruning can also be carried out to keep the crown round and beautiful for the next year's growth and flowering.

Lilacs do not flower all year round, they open in spring and summer and generally bloom once a year for a short period of time.

But varieties such as the small-leaved lilac can bloom again in August and September of the same year.

The language of the lilac is the gratitude of first love and the memories of youth.

It is a reminder of those youthful days when we believed in each other, comforted each other and held hands as we grew up in the season of flowers.

It is therefore a suitable gift for a loved one.