Here in the Scented Garden Syringa ‘Buffon’ is putting on a show of scented pink-mauve flowers.
Many of the lilacs we are familiar with in our gardens are derived from hybrids of the eastern European common lilac, Syringa vulgaris, the closely related Chinese S. oblata. The acclaimed Lemoine nursery of Nancy, France raised numerous lilac hybrids between 1849 and 1968, including ‘Buffon’, which was raised in 1921. It has an upright, multi-stemmed habit, and produces panicles of lightly scented, dense trusses of flowers.