Classic Gardening Magazine

Lilac just has to be my plant of the week. The row of Victorian houses up my street have one each in the front right-hand corner of the garden. Most have survived. They are uniformly planted – presumably by the gardener commissioned to make the houses saleable. I can’t see each new owner deciding independently that front right was the perfect place for a mauve lilac.

So we get a string of mauve up the street each May.