Proven Winners® Scentara® Double Blue Lilac

Cold-Hardy Purple-Blue Lilacs Offer Double Blooms and Sweet Scent The Scentara® Double Blue Lilac offers a full spring of purplish-blue flowers to elevate your yard with lovely colors and texture. It's even resistant to diseases and deer, making it easy to grow! This shrub is one of the most fragrant varieties of lilacs with a sweet, classic scent. Enjoy large flower heads of double blooms on dark green foliage for a colorful display. Plus, this plant is cold-hardy and attracts pollinators like butterflies and hummingbirds, turning your yard into a butterfly garden. It's perfect for planting hedges, borders, foundations, or even a cutting garden. Make your own fragrant bouquets with the Scentara® Double Blue Lilac in your backyard. Buy yours today! About Proven Winners®: Proven Winners® ColorChoice Shrubs offers flowering shrubs, evergreens, and trees that have been tested for eight to ten years to ensure they outperform conventional varieties. That means bigger flowers, more colorful foliage, reblooming, disease resistance, new habits, or anything that makes them more beautiful and easier to grow in your landscape or garden. Planting & Care 1. Planting: Scentara® Double Blue plants thrive in full sun and need well-drained, medium-moist soils. They can tolerate filtered sunlight but prefer full sun. To plant, dig a hole that is at least 50% wider than the container. Remove the plant by turning the pot upside down and tapping the bottom. If it's stuck, gently squeeze the container until it releases. Position the shrub so the top of the root ball is slightly above the hole's edge. If needed, adjust the soil in the hole before placing the plant. Fill in the hole with soil, lightly packing it around the roots without over-compacting. Finally, water the plants thoroughly after planting. 2. Watering: In the first few weeks, it is crucial to keep the soil moist but not waterlogged. The plant has average water needs and can adapt to both dry and moist conditions; however, it cannot tolerate standing water or soggy soil. 3. Fertilizing: Fertilize at planting time or in early spring after the ground has thawed and again in late spring after it has finished its first bloom. 4. Pruning: Lilacs bloom on old wood, so they should only be pruned after their spring bloom. It is best to avoid trimming or cutting back; instead, shape them selectively and carefully.