January and February are excellent months to plant trees in Louisiana. If you are thinking about adding shade trees, small spring- or summer-flowering trees or trees for screening, head to local ...

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 ...

Accustomed as American gardeners are to planting so many plants from other regions, it comes as shock when a choice tree turns out to be a native. Particularly when it is as wondrous as the Magnolia ...

DURING MY TIME as director for landscaping at Seattle University, one of my goals was to create a collection of magnolias on campus. Few, if any, trees have such magnificent flowers. Scientists ...

MENTION MAGNOLIAS and most people think of stately plantation homes framed by wide expansive lawns in the deep American South. There the native magnolia trees grow so profusely that the magnolia has ...

Q: I'm looking for a cowcumber tree, which I think is a kind of magnolia with huge leaves. Is there a reason I've never seen one in a nursery – are they hard to grow? Can you maybe recommend something ...

In the days when you could get into Kew Gardens for an old penny stamped with Britannia on the back, I regularly travelled on the 65 bus from Ealing Broadway with a rain mac and a packed lunch. By the ...

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 ...

A Magnolia tree on Lafayette Avenue, between Marcy and Tompkins Avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant, is one of only two trees that have been designated as New York City landmarks. This tree, of the species ...