Western Mountain Ash vs Madame Lemoine White Lilac - TreeTime.ca

Western Mountain Ash vs Madame Lemoine White Lilac

Syringa vulgaris Madame Lemoine

Sorbus scopulina

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Madame Lemoine White Lilac
Western Mountain Ash

Madame Lemoine White Lilac is great for attracting butterflies and hummingbirds. Winner of the Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society, the Madame Lemoine White Lilac has fragrant white flowers that are great for cutting and blue-green foliage that turns yellow in the fall. This attractive shrub is also deer resistant.

Western Mountain Ash is a popular ornamental tree native to the western part of North America. Its attractive, white clusters of flowers bloom in early summer, making way for red, yellow or orange fruit in the fall. If the fruit doesn't catch your eye, Western Mountain Ash's autumn colours will capture your–and the birds's–attention.

Madame Lemoine White Lilac Quick Facts

Western Mountain Ash Quick Facts

Zone: 3a
Zone: 2a
Height: 3 m (10 ft)
Height: 9 m (30 ft)
Spread: 3 m (10 ft)
Spread: 6 m (20 ft)
Light: full sun
Light: full sun
Moisture: dry, normal
Moisture: dry, normal
Growth rate: medium
Growth rate: medium
Life span: medium
Life span: medium
Suckering: high
Suckering: none
Maintenance: high


Flowers: white, fragrant
Flowers: white
Berries: bunches of orange-red berries appear in late summer
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Native to: AB, BC, SK, MB, YT, NT
Other Names: madame lemoine french lilac, mme lemoine lilac
Other Names: cascade mountain ash, greene mountain ash