| The Little Gem Dwarf flowering Magnolia tree, only | | | | 50 feet tall as a shade tree, and as a flowering tree |
| grows to 20 feet with small leaves and fragrant | | | | with giant white fragrant blooms redefines the term |
| white flowers half the size of the Southern giant | | | | "Evergreen shade tree specimen." William Bartram, in |
| flowering magnolia bloom. The Little Gem magnolia is | | | | his famous book, Travels (page 83), recorded seeing |
| compact in form and grows more upright than the | | | | the evergreen giant magnolia tree in 1773 in his |
| Southern Magnolia tree. The flowering of this tree | | | | exploration of Georgia, stating: "Magnolias which grow |
| begins at an early age, and the blooming period is | | | | on this river are the most beautiful and tall that I |
| longer than the Southern Magnolia, as well as being | | | | have anywhere seen." |
| perfect for small landscape gardens. | | | | Bartram described the evergreen head formed a |
| Magnolia trees are one of the top favorite evergreen | | | | perfect cone with dark green leaves that "seems |
| shade trees in America and the host of Japanese | | | | silvered over with milk-white flowers... so large, as to |
| flowering magnolias include the pink flowered tulip | | | | be distinctly visible at a distance of a mile or more." |
| flower shape 'Leonard Messel;' Southern Select | | | | The magnolia is an evergreen and is excellent for |
| Japanese Magnolia Tree, White Star Magnolia, | | | | planting near houses or parks. Other than the |
| Japanese Star Magnolia Tree, Sweetbay white star | | | | Southern white flowering magnolia tree, there are |
| magnolia tree, and the Yellow Lantern and Yellow | | | | flowering Japanese deciduous magnolia trees that |
| Butterfly flowering Magnolias. | | | | flower with blooms of red, purple, pink, white, and |
| The Southern White Flowering Magnolia tree, is native | | | | yellow. The fragrant flowering can begin in December |
| to America and is growing from southern Florida to | | | | during winter warm-ups and can bloom through June, |
| Connecticut. The magnificent evergreen leaf is waxy | | | | followed by red-seeded cones as tree ornaments. |
| green with a rusty-red underside. This tree can grow | | | | |