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Houzz Call: Show Us Your Beautifully Blooming Magnolias
Do you have one of these flowering trees? Share your pictures in the Comments
Walk the streets of any San Francisco Bay Area neighborhood in early March, and you’re likely to see spectacular pink and white magnolia flowers on bare branches. It’s the annual sign that spring is on its way. Soon magnolias will be blooming everywhere.
Calling all Houzzers: Are your magnolia trees flowering? Share your best photos in the Comments below, and you may see them in an upcoming featured ideabook.
Calling all Houzzers: Are your magnolia trees flowering? Share your best photos in the Comments below, and you may see them in an upcoming featured ideabook.
A blooming saucer magnolia (Magnolia x soulangeana) adorns the sidewalk of a neighborhood in Mill Valley, north of San Francisco. Flowers appear on these trees earlier in milder climates, and later where winter lasts longer. Five- to 10-inch waxy blooms fill bare branches even before the tree leafs out, emphasizing the tree’s spreading, architectural form and contrasting with the cool gray bark.
In Boston and other cities, magnolia blooms herald spring.
As a resilient, architectural tree that doesn’t get overwhelming in size, the saucer magnolia makes a great addition to an urban garden, courtyard or other tight spot that calls for high-impact plants.
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Star magnolias (M. stellata) are another early-blooming species. Their soft white flowers bloom on bare branches before bright green leaves emerge in spring.
Although the flower show lasts only a few weeks, these trees, with their picturesque shape and lush green leaves, earn their place in the garden year-round. Foliage persists well through summer, turning yellow and brown in fall before dropping.
Show us: Are your magnolias in full bloom? Show us in the Comments below.
See how to grow saucer magnolia
Find out why, when and how to plant a tree
Although the flower show lasts only a few weeks, these trees, with their picturesque shape and lush green leaves, earn their place in the garden year-round. Foliage persists well through summer, turning yellow and brown in fall before dropping.
Show us: Are your magnolias in full bloom? Show us in the Comments below.
See how to grow saucer magnolia
Find out why, when and how to plant a tree