Blooming Magnolia Tree

2015 SPRING Very few flowery blooms still on tree after heavy rainfall

Yesterday, I was outback checking on my Magnolia tree right before the heavy rains started again.

Sadly, it is looking a bit on the rough side. It still has blooms here and there but nothing like normal.

  Here's a photo from last spring. Note the huge difference even after thousands had fallen:

2014 Spring

I guess the recent heavy down pours have stripped it of it's normally large abundant, fragrance filled, beautiful showy flowers. 

The flowers are usually so large that one is bigger than my hand.

Here's a close up from last year:

My showy Magnolia Tree Spring 2014

After the late Spring blooms fade away, along with that sweet welcoming smell, comes the lush green leaves that provide great shade:

Summer 2014

And that is when the hammock gets the most use.

Looks like that will be my favorite time to enjoy this Magnolia this year.

Do you have a Magnolia tree close by?

Magnolias typically bloom into huge, showy, white or off-white flowers,

Read more : http://www.ehow.com/info_8122833_difference-between-tulip-magnolia-trees.html

Magnolias typically bloom into huge, showy, white or off-white flowers,

Read more : http://www.ehow.com/info_8122833_difference-between-tulip-magnolia-trees.html

Magnolia Tree in Full Bloom

Magnolia trees are simply beautiful flowering trees with an aroma like no other. They are named after Pierre Magnol who was a french botanist.

I got a few good shots of my Magnolia Tree this year when it was in full bloom.The fragrance is so hard to explain because it smells so good. I would describe it as a vintage perfume filling the air. It's a soft aroma but yet very noticeable. So hard to describe if you've never smelled it. And the blooms... oh the blooms are just big and beautiful!



Below are me and my niece Emma headed for the hammock under the Magnolia tree. It's our favorite place in the summer. And when fall rolls around, we still head out there to swing we just take a blanket with us.


Have you ever seen a Magnolia tree in full bloom?