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 ...

With some minimal pruning to remove spent blossoms, your magnolia flower buds will bloom year after year. Read the original article on House Digest.

Regular fertilization also supports the development of flower buds, leading to more abundant blooming in subsequent seasons. Without sufficient nutrients, the magnolia may bloom weaker ...

Amidst all the tulips, daffodils and other low-growing flowers, canopies of blooms are exploding on trees and shrubs these ...

This is the perfect time of year to prune overgrown trees and shrubs and maintain others with minor pruning. Many are intimidated by pruning, but with a little guidance, it’s simple.

Magnolia (Magnolia) flowers are the elegant ... The lily of the valley shrub (Pieris japonica) offers both textural flower buds and dangling blooms. Cut stems when in tight bud for the longest ...

Abraham Lincoln. “Have you ever looked at the bud of a magnolia flower? It’s a tight little pod that stays closed up for a long time on the end of its branch until one day, out of nowhere ...

Magnolia scale insects’ waxy coating protects ... because it must be used before leaf or flower buds start to open but when temperatures are predicted to stay above freezing for 24 hours.