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.

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 ...

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 ...

A question for Dan Gill: The leaves of my Japanese magnolia look terrible. It looks like a disease or insects or both have damaged the foliage. There are spots and brown areas, and some leaves ...

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 ...

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.