Lottah Nursery Tasmania, Australia

сирень - Ukrainian Lilacs

Dr. S. I. Tereshchenko, lilac curator at the Donetsk Botanical Gardens of the Ukraine, has recently authored a new Russian book Lilacs in the South-East of Ukraine in which he introduced five of his new S. vulgaris cultivars. Seeds were sown in 1985 and selection was done in 1991. English descriptions may be found in ILS Journal 33:1 pp. 14-16. They are:

Ogni Donetska	Donetsky Souvenir

Donetsky Zori	Professor A. L. Lipa	Professor M. L. Reva

Images have been provided courtesy of Russian ILS members Ms. T. Polyakova and I. Semyonova.