Bring timeless beauty and fragrance to your garden with Syringa ‘Alice Christianson’, a classic French lilac known for its lush double lavender-purple blooms and rich, sweet scent.

Blooming in late spring, this elegant shrub produces full, layered flower clusters that fill the air with fragrance—perfect for cottage gardens, borders, and cut flower arrangements.

Why You’ll Love It

• Soft lavender to rosy-purple double blooms
• Strong, classic lilac fragrance
• Ideal for cut flowers & bouquets
• Attracts bees, butterflies & hummingbirds
• Hardy, long-lived landscape shrub

Plant Details

• Botanical Name: Syringa vulgaris ‘Alice Christianson’
• Type: Deciduous flowering shrub
• Mature Size: 8–12 ft tall x 6–10 ft wide
• Bloom Time: Late spring (3–4 weeks)
• Light: Full sun
• Zones: 3–7
• Flower Color: Lavender to rosy-purple (double blooms)

Perfect For

• Cottage & traditional garden designs
• Fragrant landscape planting
• Flowering hedges & borders
• Pollinator gardens
• Cut flower gardens

Care Tips

• Plant in full sun for best flowering
• Prefers well-drained, slightly alkaline soil
• Prune after blooming to encourage next year’s flowers
• Ensure good air circulation to prevent mildew

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.