Lilac of the week
An outstanding French hybrid named Monge, or Syringa vulgaris, has very showy, short, broad panicles of single, redish-purple florets. The flowers are held on long stems that lend themselves to great cut flowers. It grows to 10 to 12 feet tall and 8 to 12 feet wide. Bred at the famed Lemoine Nursery in the early 1900s, it is named after Gaspard Monge (1746-1818), a French mathematician who invented descriptive geometry and was involved in the reform of the French educational system. Highly respected, his name was engraved along with 71 others on the base of the Eiffel Tower. Monge is among the large selection of cultivars available at the online Lombard Lilac Sale through Sept. 11 at Lombardgardenclub.org.
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