Sweet bay magnolia

Photo #8/54 of Sweet Bay Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana). Photo Location: My Garden, Pequea, Pa 17565 on 2016-05-29.

This is Magnolia virginiana, the Sweet Bay Magnolia. I think it's a lovely thing. I do admire the big Southern Magnolia but my neighbors have them and they have maintenance issues. For starters, they get huge and I don't have room for another huge tree. Sweet Bay grows to about dogwood size with a shrubby, multi-stemmed habit. Southern Magnolia leaves are very tough, leathery things that do not break down well. They and the big seed heads have to be raked and won't even compost well. I like…

Sweetbay magnolia trees feature creamy white spring and summer flowers with a sweet, lemony fragrance and leaves that flutter in the slightest breeze to flash their silvery undersides. Read here to find out more about sweetbay magnolia planting and care.

In the name Sweetbay magnolia, the “Sweetbay” part was given to it, as the foliage of this plant is sweet-bay-like in shape. And the Magnolia name was given to honor French Botanist Pierre Magnol (1638-1715) #Gardening #ornamentalGardening #Sweetbay #Magnolia #Trees #

Learn to grow the beautiful sweetbay magnolia tree (Magnolia virginiana) in your home garden with these tips for plant care, maintenance, and more.

The lovely Sweetbay Magnolia, Magnolia virginiana, goes by many common names, including Sweet Magnolia, Swamp Magnolia, Swamp Bay, Laurel, White Magnolia, and Beaver Tree to name just a few. Regardless of the name, it is a spectacular small tree in every season and we are lucky it is a common unders

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This is Magnolia virginiana, the Sweet Bay Magnolia. I think it's a lovely thing. I do admire the big Southern Magnolia but my neighbors h...

The sweetbay magnolia is a small, semi-evergreen tree with large, creamy white flowers that bloom in early summer. It grows in forested swamps and wetlands throughout most of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

sweet bay magnolia tree young

Benefits of planting a Sweet Bay Magnolia Tree, from the aesthetics value it brings to any landscape to the ecological value it brings to the environment.

Thomas Jefferson recording the planting of Sweet Bay trees adjacent to the house at Monticello and also observed the species flowering on May 22, 1808. Sweet Bay was the first Magnolia cultivated in European gardens. It was introduced to England from Virginia by John Bannister in 1688. In 1705, a pioneer natural historian from Virginia, Robert Beverly, wrote of the blossoms: "The pleasantest smell in the world." This was the most common Magnolia sold by American nurseries early in the 19th…

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Sweet Bay Tree | Sweetbay Magnolia

Sweet Bay Magnolia. I am not sure I recommend this, but I once saw a picture of this tree planted against a house that caused ME to plant one in front of my house. It naturally grows very large, but judiciously pruned, it could be graceful, like this one here would be if it were lopped back to that rounded form you can clearly see about 8 feet below the overgrown stems. Creamy lemon-scented blossoms from June-September, and foliage that sparkles in a breeze, being dark on top and white…

©Image by Ann Bilowz - Sweet Bay Magnolia

Sweetbay magnolias bloom for a long time with lots of intensely lemon-scented flowers. They’re also fairly easy to care for, and will even thrive in boggy areas where other plants quickly drown. Learn all about growing these magnificent shrubs and trees now on Gardener’s Path. #magnolia #landscapetrees #gardenerspath

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