Few plants can be considered as quintessentially Southern as the magnolia. Their big, waxy, glossy leaves juxtaposed with heady, fragrant flowers are familiar sights to Southerners. They bloom in a ...

On a recent group tree identification hike in a Leon County park, I found it interesting that the one tree everyone could identify was southern magnolia, Magnolia grandiflora. And it’s no wonder, as ...

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 ...