Blooming now is one of the more beautiful of our early spring-flowering trees, the Japanese magnolia. The Japanese magnolia opens its fat, furry flower buds in February before the foliage emerges.

A Question to Dan Gill: My Japanese magnolia tree is losing its leaves and also has a lot of brownish-black spotting on the leaves. Any ideas what could be wrong? Would it be the sun and heat?

Magnolia bark is a popular herb in traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine. Modern research suggests that it's helpful when treating various conditions like stress-induced anxiety, digestive ...

Between 1965 and 1968, eight cultivars of Japanese magnolias (Ann, Betty, Jane, Judy, Pinkie, Randy, Ricki, and Susan) were formally named and released by the U.S. Arboretum, the products of a ...

The pollinator happens to be beetles. The blooms have a fragrance, although subtle. Asian magnolia cultivars were introduced here in America 1780. They were multi-stemmed but upright and massive.

Most produce large, cup-shaped white, pink, or lavender flowers in late winter or spring, with Asian magnolias generally flowering before their glossy foliage appears and North American varieties ...

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A magnolia tree in front of a house on Davis Drive in Saginaw Township is in full bloom but starting to drop its flower petals. Having a magnolia tree in Michigan is an act of faith. It's a ...