Japanese magnolias are completing their bloom and flushing out new, light green foliage. These beautiful trees are some of the first plants to signify that spring is just around the corner. With their ...

I love the many small, flowering trees that help brighten our landscapes from February to April. Blooming now is one of the more beautiful of our early spring-flowering trees, the Japanese magnolia or ...

Nearly 240 species of magnolia trees and shrubs are native to East Asia and the Americas, and all of them bear fragrant blossoms. Older Florida gardeners might recall starry and saucer magnolias – two ...

With the exceptional beauty of the star magnolia and the saucer magnolia blossoms long gone, what should be in bloom? Another member of the family, the Southern magnolia, quietly begins putting out ...

The Japanese magnolia opens its fat, furry flower buds in February before the foliage emerges. Unlike the native Southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora), the Japanese magnolia is deciduous and drops ...