One of the most beautiful sights on our Bay Area streets in early March is magnolias in bloom. It's hard to miss their spectacular flowers, especially since they appear before the trees leaf out. The ...

Touted as one of the most popular magnolia trees you can grow, thanks to its eye-catching bouquet of huge, tulip-shaped, pinky white, goblet-shaped flowers that grow up to 25cm across, this Magnolia ...

What’s a tulip tree? There are two plant species grown in Marin that are called tulip trees. Magnolia soulangeana, a deciduous tree with saucer-shaped white to pink flowers, is a good choice for a ...

When most think about magnolias, the first thought is large, broad-leafed evergreen trees of the South. However, there are many deciduous magnolias species now in full bloom. These trees are at their ...

So many trees and shrubs bloom in March—cherry trees, forsythia, camellias, pieris—but saucer magnolias (cultivars of M. soulangeana) always hold their own with their extraordinary purple and white ...

Magnolia soulangeana, commonly called saucer or tulip magnolia, tulip tree and Japanese is a hybrid magnolia resulting from a cross of Magnolia denudata and Magnolia liliflora is not the smartest ...

The soft, pink petals of the Japanese magnolia are the perfect antidote for gray days. This deciduous ornamental tree breaks the winter doldrums with its large, cupped blooms. The deciduous magnolias ...

Magnolias come into all their glory in spring, producing saucer-sized, goblet-shaped pink blooms on huge trees, or starry white and pink blooms on smaller specimens. “There a magnolia for every garden ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A recent pilgrimage to one of Cornwall’s great nurseries reminded me that certain plants stalk (ha) gardeners ...

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 ...