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 ...

Vive la difference! Just over a century and a half ago a Frenchman, one Etienne Soulange-Bodin, a retired French cavalry officer forsook the sword for the plough, or to be more precise The Royal ...

What: All winter long, Magnolia x loebneri “Leonard Messel” is covered with large fuzzy buds full of promise of a sparkling spring show. In early spring, the buds open to reveal a delicate display of ...

Magnolias come into all their glory in spring, producing saucer-sized, goblet-shaped pink blooms on huge trees, or starry white and pink blooms on smaller specimens. “There a magnolia for every garden ...

You don't expect your nostrils to be assailed by scent at this time of year, but for the past few weeks as I have walked out of the kitchen door, the air has been pervaded by the most glorious perfume ...