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 ...

Q: I want to plant a pink magnolia like I had at my old house, but the only ones I see are called "Jane" magnolia. Is this the same tree?-- D.G., Houston Give the tree a place with winter sun or ...

A magnolia tree in full bloom is one of the joys of the spring season, whether it's a mature tree festooned with large cup-shaped flowers or a compact shrub smothered in starry blossom. At a time when ...

A little over a year ago, I wrote about how much I appreciated my friends. I titled the piece “‘In these people, I have everything I need’: a cheers to the friends of now.” In the time since, ...

Throughout our neighborhoods and the city, the most prominent and visible large pink flowering tree is the saucer Magnolia, Magnolia xsoulangiana. When you see an "X" placed before the species ...

With a prediction of rain and wind this weekend, I went looking for magnolia trees in bloom. They are such beautiful trees in the spring, covered in blossoms ranging from deep pink, purple, yellow and ...

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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Alice Taylor, 2, delights in a world of wonder underneath a flowering pink magnolia tree on Monday, April 8, 2019, in her front ...

Japanese magnolias are completing their bloom and flushing out new, light green foliage. These beautiful trees are some of the first plants to signify that spring is just around the corner. With their ...