The genus Magnolia includes about 120 species with many hybrids and cultivated varieties (cultivars) whose flowers are often large with fleshy petals with ovoid-shaped leaves (some are glossy).

Be careful when pruning magnolias at this time of year, as you can prune off flower buds that tend to be at the ends of ...

If you'd like a perfect garden lollipop try tree-form dwarf Korean lilac (Syringa meyerii 'Palibin'). This is a small lilac -- normally a tidy, rounded, 3-foot-tall lavender-flowered shrub -- that ...

These magnificent flowering plants feature blossoms in white, pink, red, purple, or yellow. Magnolia trees offer diversity in leaf shape and tree form, and are somewhat deer tolerant.

The tree is now 20 feet tall. Were we actually sold a dwarf tree? A: Southern magnolias ("Magnolia grandiflora") grow to be 60 to 75 feet tall and 35 to 40 feet wide at maturity.

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Question: I have a magnolia tree in the backyard that is about 9 years old. It is very tall and seems to be in fair condition but hasn’t bloomed. It is facing the east side and I do use the tree ...

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I have a grafted magnolia. The top portion died and the root system sent up a new trunk that took more than 10 years to bloom just a few pathetic flowers. Maybe the original top died on yours as ...