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Description

Bring seasonal beauty and scent to your garden with a Lilac 'Palibin' standard. This compact lilac packs twice the performance of larger varieties, without overwhelming smaller gardens.

This standard tree bursts into bloom in May, with soft lilac-pink flowers and an inspiring scent. As the petals fade, anticipation builds, until September brings a second flush of blooms, turning your garden into a fragrant haven once more.

You'll love how your elegant standard delivers a classic garden moment without the commitment of a larger shrub. It's grafted on a sturdy stem, ideal for containers, patios or border corners, and thanks to a dwarf nature, it stays neat and manageable. Occasional deadheading keeps it flowering for longer whilst the structure stays intact.

This standard is fully hardy and slow-growing, thriving in most soil types. It also attracts wildlife, making your garden buzz with bees enjoying the pollen-rich flowers. And because it's resilient, it offers long-term value and beauty.

Supplied as a grafted standard tree, approximately 90-120cm tall in a 3 litre pot, ready to plant.

Top Tips

Pot-grown shrubs can be planted at any time of the year as long as the soil is not waterlogged or frozen. If in doubt, err towards spring but remember to keep pots well-watered so that the soil does not dry out.

Care Information

Grow lilac plants in fertile, well drained soil in full sun.
Palibin standards can be grown in containers if you wish using a soil based compost such as John Innes No.3.
Feed and water regularly throughout the growing season while young plants become established.
Lilac can be pruned in winter or spring by removing any damaged, diseased or misplaced stems before lightly shaping to retain the standard form and height. In mid-summer, faded flowers can be removed from the plants.
After pruning, apply a mulch of well-rotted manure or compost to the base of the lilac.

To Plant

Shrub roots generally tend to spread out rather than down, so dig a planting hole 3 x wider than the roots of the shrub you're planting, and mix some well rotted compost or manure with the soil from the hole and use this to re-fill one the shrub is in place.
We've found that a square hole is better than a round one as the new roots, once they reach the edges tend to grow in a circle round the circumference of the hole whereas when they reach the corners of a square hole, they find it easier to grow through.
Before planting soak container-grown shrubs thoroughly and allow to drain.
Remove the plant from its pot and tease out a few of the roots.
Add Mycorrhizal fungi to the roots when planting to help plants establish quicker.
Place your shrub in the hole at the same level at the pot.
Refill the hole with the earth removed (backfilling).
Firm in the soil with your heel, avoiding the root ball.
Water well.
Mulch around the base of the plant with a collar, compost, gravel, bark etc.

Delivery Information

Our experienced team at the nursery will always carefully package and send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive once you receive and plant them. Although most plants are extremely tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme of weather conditions, we always avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme frosts or heat is forecast. We also avoid dispatching orders over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. If you have ordered a 'pre-order' item, these will be sent out as soon as possible after the quoted dispatch date and we generally ship your entire order with any pre-ordered items. Once your order has been dispatched, we will send you an email with details on how you can track it.

We send most of our orders via a fully tracked courier service with Yodel. We will send you a tracking link as soon as your order has been dispatched. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, we will not require a signature on delivery, and we ask out couriers to leave your item in a safe place ad your delivery address.

*Please note, once your item has been delivered, we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your delivery address. If you have delivery instruction and require our courier to leave your item in a specific place, please let us know - there is an option to leave a message for the courier at the checkout.

For smaller and single-item orders, we may send these via the post with Royal Mail - Tracking will not be available for orders sent via this method.

**Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

For all orders, a small delivery fee of £4.99 will be charged or spend over £49.99 for FREE Delivery!

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