I was out in the garden pruning last Saturday and took the opportunity to save some magnolia branches with flower buds to bring inside. It’s a tree that I have not tried forcing branches from ...

Bursting from their velvet bud capsules, star magnolias (Magnolia stellata) are small to medium-sized trees and one of the earliest to bloom in spring. The flowers appear against a fretwork of ...

Many trees I saw in home gardens and at the Garden last year were infested badly enough with scale to require treatment. Magnolia scale ... be used before leaf or flower buds start to open but ...

Alba superba is a variety of saucer magnolia that can grow to between 15 and 30 feet but has beautiful, large white flowers. If you like, the “centennial” star magnolia won the Cary Award back ...