This specimen is on the west side of the Syringa Avenue

A gift of George Marshall who purchased it from The Gobbett Nursery, Farlow, Kidderminster, Worcestershire in November 2017.

Syringa are native to woodland and scrub from southeastern Europe to eastern Asia, and widely cultivated in temperate areas elsewhere. The genus was first formally described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 bestseller ‘Species Plantarum’. The name being derived from the Ancient Greek word syrinx meaning ‘pipe’ or ‘tube’ and refers to the hollow branches of Syringa vulgaris. The English common name ‘lilac’ is from the French ‘lilac’ via the Arabic ‘lilak’ from Persian ‘nilak’ meaning ‘bluish’.

They are small trees, with quite a wide range of sizes. Though they can be kept quite small if pruned, in fact this is done so commercially, and many were originally bred for the cut flower trade.  The cultivar ‘Primrose’ was a 1949 introduction from the Netherlands, and at the time it was the first yellow lilac. It has Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit.