Sonic Bloom Pink Weigela Weigela florida, Zones 4 to 8 Traditionally, weigela is known as a dense shrub with pink flowers ...

Pink magnolia, Magnolia soulangeana, also known as Japanese magnolia, tulip tree and saucer magnolia, is one of the first trees to flower in late winter, either in January or February, depending ...

The flowers are usually around 10 inches across with nine white-pink or deep pink-purple petals. Saucer magnolia also produces a fruit similar to the other magnolias.

This Japanese magnolia's rosy pink flowers open to creamy white centers. PROVIDED PHOTO When the flowers are young, the petals are held upright — giving the flowers a tulip-like appearance.

Black tulip is another compact magnolia that flowers early and had deep pink or fuschia tulip-like blooms. From New Zealand, it is compact and grows only about 12 feet high, great for a small garden.

They’re both pink and bloom beautifully in Washington, D.C., in the spring. But don’t mistake saucer magnolias (Magnolia x soulangeana) for cherry trees.The Smithsonian’s saucer magnolias are part of ...

One magnolia that will have to stay on my fantasy wish list, unless we move to acid soil, is Magnolia JC Williams, whose deep pink-red flowers can sometimes appear black.

Saucer magnolia flower buds open before the leaves, Lobdell said, so beetles have easy access. Leaves don’t unfurl from the smaller, less furry leaf buds until the flowers have finished their ...

Magnolia ‘Cleopatra’, whose huge, goblet-shaped purple- pink flowers appear in April-May, is also relatively neat and compact in habit as is the pale-yellow flowering Magnolia ‘Elizabeth ...