Cardinal with wings spread landing on a tree branch. - Gordon Magee/Shutterstock Gardeners with a creek running through their yard, a pond, or a damp depression in the landscape should consider ...

Most people know magnolia as a small tree that bears pink flowers in early spring. That particular plant is a hybrid of two Asian species, but eight very different native magnolias grow in the eastern ...

Sweetbay magnolia, while not related to any of the plants that culinary bay leaves come from, was used by Native American tribes in the southeast as a spice. This tree has lovely, white flowers with a ...

Gardeners with a creek running through their yard, a pond, or a damp depression in the landscape should consider sweetbay magnolia (Magnolia virginiana). These trees grows fast and don't mind having ...