While this variety is supposedly both yellow and fragrant, I am with the prior reviewer who notes that it does not appear yellow, nor doe...Read Mores it have much if any fragrance. It appears a common white variety with little or no fragrance. Quite a disappointment after several years of waiting for flowers.
The color is pale and pastel but decidedly yellow to my eye, and it makes a great contrast with the darker purple lilacs. I find the supe...Read Morerb fragrance is indistinguishable from the other common lilacs.
I generally prefer hyacinthiflora hybrids to S. vulgaris, but I make an exception for this cultivar because of its unique color.
This plant was purchased at Kmart about 4 or 5 years ago from in a box from a display case of mixed boxed plants. I didn't have much fai...Read Moreth in the color being yellow but love to have a bit of fun. I planted it in a pot like my other 2 lilacs which I have had for many years. This year the so called yellow lilac is about 3 feet tall and very full and shaped nice. Lucky me that I have a fetish for cream colored flowers as to be honest saying yellow is a stretch. BUT this is an adorable plant, leaves smaller and more elliptic shaped than my other lilacs and the blossoms about one fifth of the size. It gets covered with small cone shaped flowers in a creamy white with a similar but not as pungent fragrance and I just love it ! It did bloom the first year after planting. Too bad they are misleading in advertising about the color, but I can see how it makes them sell more plants than if it said creamy white. I have grown to love this little plants that has given so much to me in a container and acts as a wonderful backdrop to other planters on my deck throughout the summer. I have no place to enjoy lilacs up close and so I have planted 3 of them in pots on my deck, my largest without the pot measures about 5 feet tall and all three bloom each spring, the yellow blooming last and it is in bloom now, June 5th 2011.
The one specimen of this I have seen (in an arboretum) did not appear yellow at all to me, but rather a pale creamy white. I could not de...Read Moretect any fragrance.
St. John's, NL (Zone 5b) | February 2005 | positive
This is perhaps the most well known of the 'yellow' lilacs. The flowers are in fact a pastel primrose-yellow, certainly not bright. How...Read Moreever, it is a welcome colour among a group of shrubs that are primarily pinks, purples and blues. It still has the classic lilac fragrance.
While this variety is supposedly both yellow and fragrant, I am with the prior reviewer who notes that it does not appear yellow, nor doe...Read More
It is a carefree shrub in my zone 7b Memphis garden. Love the fragrance of this pollinator plant!
The color is pale and pastel but decidedly yellow to my eye, and it makes a great contrast with the darker purple lilacs. I find the supe...Read More
This plant was purchased at Kmart about 4 or 5 years ago from in a box from a display case of mixed boxed plants. I didn't have much fai...Read More
The one specimen of this I have seen (in an arboretum) did not appear yellow at all to me, but rather a pale creamy white. I could not de...Read More
This is perhaps the most well known of the 'yellow' lilacs. The flowers are in fact a pastel primrose-yellow, certainly not bright. How...Read More