One was yellow and purple lilacs, in bloom throughout the island.

Then the Wizard plucked a cluster of purple lilacs.

I asked, sniffing a purple lilac and admiring a statue of a headless woman in classical drapery.

Of course you know that with one whiff she could distinguish the different fragrance of purple and white lilac, and a red, white, or pink rose.

The road was screened by another brick wall, topped with trellis, brought to life by a mass of climbers and a large purple flowered lilac.

Based on the 1840 classic Le langage des fleurs by Madame de la Tour, purple lilacs meant death.

Even as the forest reasserts itself, purple lilacs blooming among the reds and yellows of wildflowers remind hikers that settlers once cultivated these lands.

The big double purple and white lilacs, which my grandmother brought here shortly after she eloped at 16, filled the house with their intoxicating scent weeks ago.

I could smell the fragrance of May's purple lilacs.

So we added a dozen purple lilacs, 19 highbush blueberries, 50 viburnums, 15 red twig dogwoods.