Absolutely....I just transplanted a few a couple weeks ago, and they were in full bloom, and still are..These trees are much more rugged than you might think.. As for the planting into the ground, we will leave that for the experts or experienced..Some one will come and tell you how to prep the soil and other things you need to be aware of.. Good luck and congratulations on a great journey..Trust me, you will want more..lol Mike..:-)

Susan, That's true. When I lived in Texas, we thought of "south Texas" as Brownsville, San Antonio, etc. For snow purposes, though, it is pretty far south and that's the context in which I was using it. When I livedin Fort Worth, Austin seemed like it was just a hop, skip and a jump away. Now it seems so very far away. LOL Actually I only listed Austin because snow seems more likely there than in other Texas locations that also have 'a slim chance' of freezing precip, including Houston, Corpus Christi, etc. I haven't looked at models of the projected pathway across Texas today to see if the track is the same as projected yesterday. The Thursday storm will track low (if the models are right) through Texas and the southern half of OK so some places in Texas may see more snow with this storm than places in northern OK. There's even a slim chance of precip for New Orleans, other cities along the Gulf coast and maybe even northern Florida with this Thursday storm. We have sunshine here this morning so snow seems far away but we might see it on Thursday. I haven't even looked at the longer-term projections to see what kind of weather pattern might bring us snow next Monday. I'm not sure I want to know. As a brief aside, I spoke with DS a few minutes ago and he encountered very icy freeways in Grapevine on his way to work at D-FW Airport. He thinks the freeway icing near the airort was from yesterday's rain that froze as temps dropped last night, but said there are multiple slick roads in one particular part of Dallas that may have had late freezing rain or something else because they are much worse than the rest of the area. Can we just skip the rest of February and go straight to March and, hopefully, better weather. Dawn

Sounds like you already have your answer, but I would also suggest that the various earliest blooming Magnolia soulangeana cultivars are already blooming here in northern California, and also add alot of interest this time of year here in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Why do you want to kill them? We have several different types of flying insects here. Carpenter bees, wasps, yellow jackets and honey bees. God created them all for a purpose. The carpenter bees are great pollinators. The wasps kill bad bugs and feed them to there young. And honeybees pollinate also. I haven't been stung in the 9 years I've lived here. The wasps and yellow jackets love my grapes. They just fly away when I go to pick grapes.