Lilac varieties in the photo

A lilac tree can be found in almost every garden, near private houses, in parks and just on city streets. There are more than one and a half thousand varieties of this beautifully flowering plant. Lilac varieties in the photo differ in color, shape, degree of terry inflorescences. Their color is usually light, various gray-pink tones or white. By international classification lilacs stand out: white, violet, bluish, lilac, pinkish, magenta, purple.

Among white varieties the most common are “Belle of Moscow”, “Alice Harding”, “Prime of Roses”, “Madame Abel Chatenay”, “Madame Casimir Perrier”, “Monique Lemoine”. Some purple varieties: “Monique Lemoine”, “Cosmos”, “Dream”, “Maksimovich”. From bluish Let's note "Ami Shot", "Madame Charles Suchet", "Dresden China". Lilac varieties, of course, the most numerous. Let’s name only varieties of Russian selection: “Poltava”, “Partizanka”, “Taras Bulba”, “Leonid Leonov”, “Russian Song”. Pinkish varieties are not found so often, but there are also a lot of them: “Great Victory”, “Polina Osipenko”, “Mirabeau” and others. Magenta varieties serenas have a purplish-lilac color and are highly decorative; they have large drooping inflorescences. This group includes “Congo”, “Reaumur”, “President Poincaré”, “Captain Gastello”. Purple lilacs not so many were produced, they are considered the most beautiful, for example, “Ludwig Shpet”, “Alexey Maresyev”, “Dawn of Communism”.

No matter how the lilac varieties look in the photo, caring for them I need the same one. This is loosening the soil around the tree, formative pruning.The tree does not really need watering, but if you water it in the spring, it will thank you with more luxuriant flowering. Organic fertilizing is done before winter, and mineral fertilizers are used in spring and summer.