Magnolias come into all their glory in spring, producing saucer-sized, goblet-shaped pink blooms on huge trees, or starry white and pink blooms on smaller specimens. “There a magnolia for every garden ...

The saucer magnolia (Magnolia x soulangiana) is a multi-stemmed, spreading tree. Large, fuzzy, green flower buds are carried through the winter at the tips of brittle branches. Blooms open in late ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Though people often think of Southern magnolias as the most iconic type of this tree, some varieties also ...

This week, London’s magnolia trees are in their absolute prime. Many flower en masse before they have produced this year’s leaves, known botanically as precocious flowering. They are scattered through ...

August belongs to the red magnolias here. They start flowering in July for us but peak this month. While others may delight in one or two red magnolias, we get them en masse. For every named variety, ...

Many kinds of small flowering trees help brighten our landscapes from late winter through the spring season. Coming into bloom now is one of the more beautiful of our early spring flowering trees, the ...

One of the most beautiful of all flowering trees is the Asiatic (commonly called Japanese) magnolia (known to botanists as the Yulan subsection of the Magnolia genus). They burst forth during late ...

Japanese magnolias are in bloom everywhere right now, possibly signifying an early spring. It’s one of the most strikingly beautiful blooming trees this time of year. Also known as saucer magnolia, it ...

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