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Purple Lilac (Wholesale Bundles) | Spring 2027
$187.00
Price breaks
| Bundles in your cart | Per bundle | Per plant |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 bundles | $187.00 | $7.48 |
| 4 to 11 bundles | $158.95 | $6.36 |
| 12 to 23 bundles | $140.25 | $5.61 |
| 24 bundles and up | $121.55 | $4.86 |
40 bundles or more? Email us for a quote.
Breaks count every Farm & Ranch bundle in your cart, any mix of plants.
Farm & Ranch bundles are already priced wholesale, so SAVE discount codes don't apply to them.
Reliable shipping
Only need a few? This page is wholesale, sold by the bundle. For smaller numbers, order our Purple Lilac (Bundle of 3).
At a glance: Purple Lilac is the classic fragrant farmstead hedge, rated hardy to zone 2 in our ratings (winters to -50°F). Ships bare root. Sold here at wholesale prices, by the bundle.
| Also called | Common lilac, old fashioned lilac (Syringa vulgaris) |
|---|---|
| Hardy to | Zone 2 on the MFTC modified cold hardiness scale (-50°F). Grows in zones 2 to 7. A bare number means the whole of zone 2, colder half included. Find your zone with our cold hardiness calculator. |
| Mature size | 8 to 12 ft tall, suckering |
| Pollination | No pollination needed. Grown for bloom, not fruit. |
| Spacing | 3 to 5 ft apart in the row. |
| Good for | Outside row of a shelterbelt, farmstead hedges and screens, snow catch, spring bloom for bees and butterflies |
| Deer | Seldom badly damaged by deer. |
| What you get | Dormant bare root seedlings, 25 plants to a bundle, or 20 to a bundle for 3 ft. and taller. Sizes: 6-10 in., 10-24 in., 2-3 ft. and 3 ft.+. Shipped from Missoula, or picked up in Missoula, in spring 2027. |
| Wholesale terms | Sold by the bundle. Mix any Farm & Ranch plants to reach a price break at 4, 12 and 24 bundles. 40 bundles or more, email us for a quote. |
Overview
Purple lilac is the hedge still standing around homesteads a hundred years after the house is gone. It is dense to the ground, drought tolerant, long lived and covered in fragrant bloom every May.
Origin & History
Native to the Balkans and carried west by settlers. It has been a standard outside row shrub in plains shelterbelts for generations.
Uses
Hedges, screens and the windward shrub row of a belt, where its suckering habit fills gaps and traps snow. Seedlings bloom in shades from white to purple, mostly lavender.
Growth Habit
Upright, suckering shrub, 8 to 12 ft tall, forming a thicket over time.
Spacing
Plant 3 to 5 ft apart. A bundle of 25 covers 75 to 125 ft of row.
Pollination
Nothing needed. Flowers are visited by bees, butterflies and hawk moths.
Cold hardiness
We rate purple lilac to zone 2, winters to -50°F.
How wholesale orders work
- Bundles can't be split. Sizes under 3 ft. come 25 to a bundle, 3 ft. and taller come 20 to a bundle.
- Price breaks count every Farm & Ranch bundle in your cart, any mix of plants. 4 bundles, 12 bundles and 24 bundles each drop the price on all of them. The discount shows up in your cart on its own.
- Add to your order any time before it ships. Same shipping address, and the bundles count together toward the next price break.
- No cancellations after February 1. Cancel part of an order before then and the rest is priced at the break it still earns.
- If we come up short on a plant, you keep the price break you paid for and we refund the bundles we couldn't send.
- Our dead plant guarantee covers these the same as everything else we sell. A plant that never leafs out its first season gets a credit code for what you paid for it plus its share of the shipping. We can't break a bundle, so credit goes toward a future order, not loose replacement plants.
- Planting 40 bundles or more? Email us for a quote.
Questions we get about Purple Lilac
How cold hardy is Purple Lilac?
We rate it hardy to zone 2, which means winters down to about -50°F.
How far apart do I plant Purple Lilac?
3 to 5 ft apart for a hedge or shelterbelt row.
What arrives, and when does it ship?
Dormant bare root seedlings by the bundle, roots packed in moist sawdust, shipped from Missoula or picked up in Missoula in spring 2027. Orders are paid in full at checkout. Our dead plant guarantee covers them: a plant that never leafs out its first season gets a credit code toward a future order.