Then there are all the saucer magnolias, which are just beginning their show.

The same principle holds for saucer magnolias, which branch low on the trunk.

A saucer magnolia stood next to a short camellia, showing off its red flowers and yellow center.

Maybe the muscari, which bloom in early April, will be too early for the saucer magnolia.

Star and saucer magnolias will line Magnolia Way.

Soon afterward follows the large-flowered saucer magnolia, a hybrid that was bred in France more than 170 years ago.

Saucer magnolias are grown all over the North, mostly because they are hardy to Zone 4.

Next to make its appearance is the showy saucer magnolia (Magnolia soulangiana).

We have one flowering crab apple and a quince, but no weeping cherry trees or pink saucer magnolias.

THERE is a huge saucer magnolia on my property in New Jersey.

What is most often seen growing in New York is Magnolia x soulangiana, the saucer magnolia.

So is the single saucer magnolia branch I set in a charcoal-colored crock: vermilion petals emerging from fuzzy gray buds.

I think it's a saucer magnolia (Magnolia x soulangiana), because it has those big creamy cuplike flowers edged in purple.

Like the saucer magnolia (Magnolia x soulangeana), it is deciduous, revealing a twiggy, naked frame in winter.

Eastern tent caterpillar larvae are active and vulnerable in early May, when the redbud and saucer magnolias are in bloom.

Saucer Magnolia (Magnolia x soulangeana)

Magnolia x soulangeana (saucer magnolia) is a hybrid plant in the genus Magnolia and family Magnoliaceae.

MAGNOLIA A 15-year-old saucer magnolia bloomed this summer.

The flowers, though not as showy as the well-known saucer magnolia, are also white, smaller, about two inches across, but nicely scented with a kind of lemony aroma.

And the hybrid Magnolia x soulangeana, a k a saucer magnolia, which can grow more than 20 feet tall and wide, will almost surely be miserable, then dead.

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.

Each flower bed is planted with a series of Littleleaf lindens and Kennedy saucer magnolias bordered by low hedges of boxwood and American Holly.

"He envisioned the Magnolia Plaza," said Mr. Hyland, who had found me there, worshiping the dancing forms of the saucer magnolias, enclosed by their serpentine hedges.

Like some of the other Asian varieties, the saucer magnolia blooms before it leafs out - and standing under that velvety cloud of pure blossoms is kind of like falling in love.

The result: Two 45-foot weeping beeches, two 47-foot ginkgoes, saucer magnolias that stretch 26 feet in height and diameter, a dozen 40-foot American hollies and two 40-foot Southern magnolias.

Then there are all the saucer magnolias, which are just beginning their show.

The same principle holds for saucer magnolias, which branch low on the trunk.

A saucer magnolia stood next to a short camellia, showing off its red flowers and yellow center.

Maybe the muscari, which bloom in early April, will be too early for the saucer magnolia.

Star and saucer magnolias will line Magnolia Way.

Soon afterward follows the large-flowered saucer magnolia, a hybrid that was bred in France more than 170 years ago.

Saucer magnolias are grown all over the North, mostly because they are hardy to Zone 4.

Next to make its appearance is the showy saucer magnolia (Magnolia soulangiana).

We have one flowering crab apple and a quince, but no weeping cherry trees or pink saucer magnolias.

THERE is a huge saucer magnolia on my property in New Jersey.

What is most often seen growing in New York is Magnolia x soulangiana, the saucer magnolia.

So is the single saucer magnolia branch I set in a charcoal-colored crock: vermilion petals emerging from fuzzy gray buds.

I think it's a saucer magnolia (Magnolia x soulangiana), because it has those big creamy cuplike flowers edged in purple.

Like the saucer magnolia (Magnolia x soulangeana), it is deciduous, revealing a twiggy, naked frame in winter.

Eastern tent caterpillar larvae are active and vulnerable in early May, when the redbud and saucer magnolias are in bloom.

Saucer Magnolia (Magnolia x soulangeana)

Magnolia x soulangeana (saucer magnolia) is a hybrid plant in the genus Magnolia and family Magnoliaceae.

MAGNOLIA A 15-year-old saucer magnolia bloomed this summer.

The flowers, though not as showy as the well-known saucer magnolia, are also white, smaller, about two inches across, but nicely scented with a kind of lemony aroma.

And the hybrid Magnolia x soulangeana, a k a saucer magnolia, which can grow more than 20 feet tall and wide, will almost surely be miserable, then dead.

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.

Each flower bed is planted with a series of Littleleaf lindens and Kennedy saucer magnolias bordered by low hedges of boxwood and American Holly.

"He envisioned the Magnolia Plaza," said Mr. Hyland, who had found me there, worshiping the dancing forms of the saucer magnolias, enclosed by their serpentine hedges.

Like some of the other Asian varieties, the saucer magnolia blooms before it leafs out - and standing under that velvety cloud of pure blossoms is kind of like falling in love.

The result: Two 45-foot weeping beeches, two 47-foot ginkgoes, saucer magnolias that stretch 26 feet in height and diameter, a dozen 40-foot American hollies and two 40-foot Southern magnolias.

A Magnolia Contained Q. If I prune yearly, can I grow Magnolia soulangeana as a patio container plant in New York City?