Star magnolia (Magnolia stellata) is a relatively early spring blooming small tree. Blooming sometime in April, depending on the season, it has masses of showy star-shaped flowers.

The most easily recognized type is the iconic Southern magnolia, an evergreen tree with huge, waxy white blooms that appear in summer and can reach up to 12 inches in diameter. Southern magnolias ...

Magnolias have started to bloom along Beacon Street this week. Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff A star magnolia tree blooms at the Boston Public Garden on April 5, 2023. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff ...

Japanese Apricot (Prunus mume) is usually the first of the flowering ornamental fruit trees to show their color. This rounded 15- to 20-foot tree has fragrant light pink blooms on bare branches ...

Magnolia buds, born last summer, are beginning to bloom after wintering over These striking, “old-wood bloomers” come in hundreds of varieties. They can be grown as multi-stem shrubs or single ...