Common Lilac Hardwood

The common lilac is an old fashioned long lived and well loved lilac best known for its fragrant flowers.

Common lilac hardwood.

It can cause contamination. Even though the common lilac is a softwood it is a hard to root species. Occasionally used for small turned projects such as pens and bowls as well as carved items. With this information given the primary method of propagation will be stem cuttings.

I use a small paint brush to cover the length of stem that will be under the growing medium. In the oleaceae family lilac bears at least a distant relation to olive. Woodworkers considered the lilac wood to be a hardwood suitable for carving and musical instruments. In this video i show how to propagate hardwood cuttings common lilac in this case using a cheap black storage bin rooting hormone and starter fertil.

Lilac wood grows quickly every year sending up new branches while the older branches get thicker. The may blooming flowers are typically purple to lilac but cultivars also come. The lilac was planted for his late wife s last mother s day so it s very. The common lilac is a popular ornamental landscaping plant that s fairly low maintenance under the right conditions.

Not to be confused with chinaberry which is an unrelated species that is sometimes referred to as persian lilac related species. The most widely grown is common lilac syringa vulgaris hardy to u s. It is a bit stronger for semi hardwood cuttings. Syringa lilac is a genus of 12 currently recognized species of flowering woody plants in the olive family native to woodland and scrub from southeastern europe to eastern asia and widely and commonly cultivated in temperate areas elsewhere.

Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 through 7 although some varieties and hybrids are hardy through usda zone 9. Because lilacs are softwood species they can lose water rapidly so desiccation control is needed. The genus is most closely related to ligustrum privet classified with it in oleaceae tribus oleeae subtribus ligustrinae. You see i have put the stem into the bottle of the gel this is not recommended.