Spring has sprung!
When the saucer magnolia (Magnolia X soulangeana), or tulip magnolia, starts to bloom, you know spring has started.
In the front woods area, on the southern edge, saucer magnolias have been growing and multiplying for decades. If the weather is right, we get a riot of blooms.
Look up and you see a pink blossom on the tip of every branch, and a most delicious fragrance wafts through the air.
Some years, like this one, people stop their cars on the road and take pictures.
We do have two other single specimen saucer magnolias in the back: one outside the kitchen windows, and one behind the main iris garden. If we don't have a hard rain or freezing rain, the blooms will last for weeks.
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