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International Lilac Society
We highly recommend membership in the International Lilac Society. Society members are more than willing to share their knowledge and plants with everyone from lilac enthusiasts to professional nurserymen. In addition to the standard benefits, the greatest rewards from membership come from contact with other members. Syringa Plus offers a 10% discount to current ILS members on all of our Lilacs.
International Lilac Register
The “International Cultivar Registration Authority (ICRA) for the Genus Syringa L. (Oleaceae)” is written by Registrar Freek Vrugtman.
We highly recommend membership in the International Lilac Society. Society members are more than willing to share their knowledge and plants with everyone from lilac enthusiasts to professional nurserymen. In addition to the standard benefits, the greatest rewards from membership come from contact with other members.
International Lilac Registrar page on Society website:
The “International Cultivar Registration Authority (ICRA) for the Genus Syringa L. (Oleaceae)” is written by Registrar Freek Vrugtman.
If you want to know the registered names of lilacs, and information about them, or if you have created a new lilac yourself and would like to register it officially, then you’ve found the right place. To learn more about lilac names and registrations, see the Lilac Registrar’s page.
Lilac Collections
The Arnold Arboretum, located in Boston, Massachusetts, includes a lilac collection of over 500 plants of approximately 230 different species and cultivars. Each May, they hold their Lilac Sunday, an event celebrating 130 years of lilac cultivation at the Arnold Arboretum.
A National Historic Site, located in Woodland, Washington. Their goal is not only to preserve the Lilac heritage developed by Hulda, but to maintain the gardens for visitors to experience the tranquility of a pioneer Victorian farm and garden. “The Lilac Lady,” whose Lilac hybridization work has given us many superior Lilacs, should forever be remembered.
The McLaughlin Foundation, a non-profit corporation, was founded in 1996 to preserve the home and garden of the late Bernard McLaughlin, a long-standing member of the International Lilac Society. The Garden, located in South Paris, Maine, includes a large lilac collection and is being maintained open and free to the public seven days a week during the growing season.
Highland Park in Rochester, NY is home to the Rochester Lilac Festival, a century-old event celebrated by more than a half-million people annually. Highland Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, also includes over 500 cultivars of lilacs.
ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS – CANADA
The Katie Osborne Lilac Dell at Canada’s Royal Botanical Gardens is home to approximately 800 different kinds of lilacs– one of the largest lilac collections in the world.
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