Have you ever dreamed of having a backyard or garden filled with the sweet, perfumy scent of fresh magnolia blossoms in the spring? If so, you'll be happy to know there is a wide range of varieties to ...

Magnolias are one of the most beloved heralds of spring, whose showy blooms often appear before the trees leaf out. The diverse magnolia genus ranges from shrubs or dwarf trees to trees that grow over ...

Unseasonably mild weather in late winter is bad news for a spring-flowering magnolia, as it coaxes it to open its blossoms too early. If it is followed by an arctic blast of cold air, the glorious ...

Just as important as the appearance of your yard is the scent that draws you in. The star magnolia tree (Magnolia stellata) boasts both eye-catching star-shaped white blooms and a delicate, sweet ...

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 ...

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 ...

These striking, “old-wood bloomers” come in hundreds of varieties. They can be grown as multi-stem shrubs or single-trunk trees. Magnolias offer us gardeners some spectacular options for our Pacific ...

Most of the Japanese magnolias we grow in our landscapes are the result of a cross between two Chinese species (lily magnolia, Magnolia liliiflora and Yulan magnolia, Magnolia denudata), and go by the ...