Three Great Lilacs for Your Garden: Miss Kim, Bloomerang and Dwarf Korean

I’ve worked at Garden Centers for many years, and occasionally I would have a customer looking for shrubs to plant that would reveal they did not like the scent of Lilac flowers. What? I thought they were kidding. But apparently some clubs revolve around their love of the smell of skunk. What? To each their own I guess!

I love Lilacs. Miss Kim is my favorite variety for many reasons:

• Fast growing
• An interesting crinkled elliptical-shaped leaf that picks up a plum fall color
• Beautiful lilac-colored blooms that fade to white
• A wonderful scent, as good as any lilac you’ll ever come across
• An important plant for various pollinators

Miss Kim is also very hardy and makes an excellent formal shrub if you shape it. To avoid interrupting the spring blooms, make sure you only do the pruning directly after the flowers have finished blooming. The timing here will allow the plant to sprout some new growth and set flower bud for the next season which take a full year to develop. You can view videos here and here to see pruning by thinning, and shearing after blooming is complete.

Here's a video that looks at all three lilacs; Miss Kim, Bloomerang, and Dwarf Korean:

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