A Mini Arboretum of Lilacs

I took a little walk around a mini arboretum that features mostly lilacs. They were mostly in peak bloom at this time and it smelled amazing there.

The Latin name of most of these lilacs is Syringa x hyacinthiflora. It seems there are many common names under that Latin name. Each of these had their own unique common name probably invented by the original person who created the unique breed of the plant.

This one's common name is Dark Night. It doesn't quite look like batman but I suspect a pollen eating bat would love tasting the pollen out of this one.

This one was called Asessippi with the name originating from Frank Skinner in 1932 named after the Asessippi region where it grows in Canada.

The common name of this one is Declaration. I suspect it got a bold name like this from its aroma that kind of resembles grapes and caramel popcorn mixed together.

This one is a Syringa vulgaris with a common name of Miss Ellen Willmott named after a British rosarian in 1903.

Here is another Syringa vulgaris called Yankee Doodle. I'm not sure who named it but this one had an almost strawberry cotton candy sort of smell.

This one is called Anabel originated by Frank Hawking an Iowan farmer in 1956. It was named after his wife Annabelle.

Here is a strange one called MORjos 060F marketed under the name of JOSEE. I wonder if this one was created in a lab with the help of a gene gun with a common name like that.

This one originates from a Lemoine Nursery in 1886 with a common name of President Grevy named after a French president Francois Paul Jules Grevy. I suppose if you get famous enough eventually a lilac will be named after you.

This is another Syringa vulgaris with a common name of General Sheridan by John Dunbar in 1917. It is named after an American soldier Henry Sheridan from the 1800s.

Here is a Syringa (Villosae Group) called the Dancing Druid by John Fiala in 1968. This one had the funniest name of the bunch.

Now for just some grown cover flowers that were planted for peak bloom.

That's all for now, thanks for looking :-)