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Beautiful, heavily fragrant, dark purple, single blooms come late in spring, extending the lilac season! An outstanding selection useful in mixed shrub borders or in mass plantings with other lilacs. Deciduous. Light. Full sun.
- Flowering Shrubs
- Full sun
- Spring
- Water when top 2 inches of soil is dry.
Regarded as one of the best purple lilacs, award-winning Syringa vulgaris ‘Andenken an Ludwig Spath’ is an upright, deciduous shrub with slender panicles, up to 12 in. long (30 cm), packed with amazingly fragrant, single, deep wine-red flowers.
Ludwig Spaeth is a French Hybrid Lilac that was first introduced in 1883. It's a gorgeous late bloomer that has perfumed gardens for well over a hundred years. Ludwig features huge clusters of beautiful deep purple-red blooms on a deciduous shrub.
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The Ludwig Spaeth lilac is a popular cultivar of the common lilac, Syringa vulgaris. It is known for its deep purple, fragrant blooms that appear in late spring to early summer. This lilac is a hardy and long-lived shrub that can grow up to 10 feet tall and wide.
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- Full Sun
- Syringa vulgaris 'Ludwig Spaeth'
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Ludwig Spaeth is a French Hybrid Lilac that was first introduced in 1883. It’s a gorgeous late bloomer that has perfumed gardens for well over a hundred years. Ludwig features huge clusters of beautiful deep purple-red blooms on a deciduous shrub.
How to grow Common lilac 'Ludwig Spaeth' (Syringa vulgaris) in Your Garden: Information and care instructions on how to plant, grow, and harvest Common lilac 'Ludwig Spaeth' in containers, raised beds and outdoor gardens.
It is particularly noted for its mid to late spring (May) bloom of very fragrant, tubular, 4-lobed, lilac to purple flowers (each to 1/3” long) which bloom in large conical to narrow-pyramidal panicles (to 6-8” long).
