Syringa prestoniae 'Minuet'
Price:
$41.95
Regular Price
🌿 General Description
- Type: Deciduous Shrub
- Family: Oleaceae
- Group: Preston Lilacs (Canadian hybrids)
- Habit: Compact, dense, rounded (almost spherical)
👉 It's a "clean" looking lilac, much more structured than classic lilacs.
📏 Height and Width
- Height: 1.5 to 2 m (5 to 7 feet)
- Width: 1.5 to 2.5 m
👉 So perfect for:
- Low hedge
- Front of house
- Small gardens
🌸 Flowering
- Color: Lavender pink to pale mauve
- Form: Elongated panicles
- Fragrance: Present but milder than common lilac
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Period:
- Late spring → early summer
- 2 weeks later than Syringa vulgaris
💡 HUGE advantage: extends the lilac season.
☀️ Exposure
- Full sun ideal
- Tolerates partial shade (fewer flowers)
🌱 Soil
- Well-drained
- Neutral to slightly alkaline
- Tolerates various soils (more tolerant than many shrubs)
❄️ Hardiness
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Zone 2 to 3
👉 Ultra-hardy → perfect for Quebec with no stress
💧 Maintenance
- Watering: Moderate (tolerates drought once established)
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Pruning:
- After flowering
- Naturally maintains a nice shape
- Growth: Medium
🛡️ Resistance
- Good disease resistance
- Less susceptible to powdery mildew
- Rarely browsed by deer
🌳 Use in Landscaping
👉 Very interesting for your type of business:
- Clean, low flowering hedge
- Structured massif
- Commercial front (clean look, not invasive)
- Urban landscaping or small gardens
👍 Advantages
- Compact size (rare for lilacs)
- Late flowering
- Very hardy
- Low maintenance
- Good disease resistance