star magnolia
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Favorite spot in the garden: There is a star magnolia tree.

Even the star magnolia's leaves are smaller than those of other magnolias.

Although called a tree, the star magnolia is more shrublike in its growth pattern.

There, rising from the earth, is the star magnolia around which some of those ashes were planted.

And star magnolias are used for bonsai, which should suggest how much abuse they are willing to endure.

Star magnolias have abundant narrow-petaled flowers, which are almost always white, though many varieties have pink buds.

The first of the Asian species to make its debut is the star magnolia (Magnolia stellata).

A Parks Department botanist selected slow-growing trees like star magnolia and crab apple for the containers.

Magnolia stellata, sometimes called the star magnolia, is a slow-growing shrub or small tree native to Japan.

Following close upon the season of the star magnolia is the Yulan magnolia (M. denudata) with its clean white flowers.

Check out the star magnolias that grace the other side of the building and then head toward the Snuff Mill Restaurant to see the magnolia collection.

One tree that often succumbs to winter temperatures is the early-flowering star magnolia (Magnolia stellata), a native of Japan.

Over at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the white star magnolias are at their peak and the pink saucer types are just beginning to bloom.

A star magnolia named Centennial won honors for a fine reputation for performance in spite of spring frosts and its cloud of blooms, which appear before the leaves.

The star magnolia near the entrance to the Natural Garden has had its crown pruned flat and low so the flowers appear to rest on a shelf of branches.

The ubiquitous star magnolia (Magnolia stellata), for example, made its American debut in 1862 in Long Island, and has been blasted by spring frosts ever since.

In 1955, Francis de Vos began to transfer pollen from star magnolia cultivars to lily magnolia (M. lilliflora) cultivars.

Jimmie's Garden - rock daphne, hornbeam, weeping Nootka cypress, a Japanese pagoda tree, star magnolias, rhododendrons, perennial shrubs and flowers.

Some, such as the star magnolia (Magnolia stellata) and the saucer magnolia (Magnolia x soulangeana), flower quite early in the spring, before the leaves open.

If you want to eliminate any stems of the star magnolia, which is a multistemmed tree, it's best to do it the first year or so, before the stems get too thick.

Their lily magnolia genes place them in the second group of magnolias, giving them late flowering characteristics, and their star magnolia genes provide mildew resistance and prolific, fragrant flowers.

But if the planter is at least three feet square, you may be able to build a successful relationship with M. stellata, the star magnolia, a smaller tree (or large shrub) that is also more cold-hardy.

The Kobushi magnolia is closely related to the star magnolia (Magnolia stellata), and some authorities consider the star magnolia to be a variety of M. kobus, M. kobus var.

Right now, the star magnolias (Magnolia tomentosa) are at their peak - all 16 of them, in groups of four, dangling their white ribbony petals over multistemmed trunks that, after 60 years, are as twisty and knotted as some mystical woods in a fairy tale.

Extension agents and arborists often suggest forgoing tall, stately streetside trees that form an overhead arch, tangling up utility lines in the process, favoring more compact species like Kousa dogwoods, crab apples, Carolina silverbells, thornless hawthorns, star magnolias, redbuds and serviceberries.

'Magnolia stellata' is a species which may be found growing wild in certain parts of the Ise Bay area of central Honshū, Japan's largest island, at elevations between 50m and 600m.