Something about big flowers and foliage is so enticing to me. The first time I saw Magnolia macrophylla was at a botanical garden in Kentucky, and I was totally taken aback by the gargantuan leaves ...

Magnolias are about the most exotic looking hardy trees and shrubs we can grow. They are mainly deciduous, but sometimes evergreen, shrubs and trees that thrive most successfully in lime-free soils.

From stately southern magnolias to petite star magnolias, there is a type of magnolia tree or shrub for everyone. photohampster / Getty Images With so many spectacular types of magnolia trees and ...

This year’s show of magnolia blooms was tarnished. The flowers on many early-blooming magnolia trees turned brown and crisp like potato chips as a result of sharply cold nights in early April. Petals ...

While there are over 200 species of magnolias (magnoliaceae) worldwide, when someone says look at that beautiful magnolia tree, there is a good chance they are referring to the quintessential native, ...

[imgbelt img=Silene320.jpg] It’s hunting season. Two Kentucky plantsmen head unarmed into the territory of putty root and pink muhly, finding the highest waterfall in the state and othr wonders. Leaf ...

This Gardening News column is from the online archives of The Star of North Augusta, a collection of more than 25,000 articles published from October 2007 to February 2022. What can be more “Southern” ...

The Magnolia macrophylla nestled between the Nevin Welcome Center and the Lewis Education Building in the Cornell Plantations botanical garden is a striking sight: large fluffy leaves that can stretch ...

I was going to start by saying let’s talk about one of my favorite plants; I have so many, that this wouldn’t be true. Let’s talk about one of my many favorites. How can you not like magnolias when ...

If it were up to Kunso Kim, head of collections and curator at The Morton Arboretum, we would see more magnolias around. “Magnolias are fascinating and fun, but not well understood in our region,” Kim ...

North Florida is very lucky in that we have an incredible diversity of trees growing naturally in our area. Torreya State Park has the title of most tree diversity for an area in the contiguous United ...

Several varieties of magnolias can be found in this region. The saucer magnolia, sometimes called a Japanese magnolia, can have pink blooms or might have white blooms on the inside with pink on the ...