Q: Our mature saucer magnolia (Magnolia soulangeana ... The Oregon State Landscape Plants page for your tree, here, lists it as hardy in zone 5 and even 4. You are likely in zone 8, so frost ...

As winter fades, some plants grace you with a showy welcome in spring. The large-petaled flowers of this tree, in particular, ...

Magnolia soulangeana, commonly called saucer or tulip magnolia, tulip tree and Japanese is a hybrid ... liliflora is not the smartest plant in our landscape--a week of warm weather and it is ...

While some magnolias grow enormous, the following varieties are well-suited to the home landscape ... (Magnolia × soulangeana) are divas — in a good way. It’s sometimes referred to as a tulip ...

I love the many small flowering trees that help brighten our ... The Latin name for the Japanese magnolia is Magnolia x soulangeana. The "x" in the middle of the name indicates that this is ...

it's quite distinct from a usual soulangeana. We also love the Magnolia loebneri "Leonard Messel", we have one on the lawn in front of the 17th century manor house: it is a fairly early flowering tree ...

One of these is saucer magnolia (Magnolia soulangeana), a small tree whose petals, when they flatten out, resemble saucers. The California native Western redbud (Cercis occidentalis) is another ...

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 ...

From the goblet-shaped displays of the most common variety, Magnolia ... the trees have strong French ties, having been named in the 18th century after botanist Pierre Magnol. And the soulangeana ...