Saucer Magnolia Blooms Emerge - April 2023
Pink flowers are on their way via our front yard Saucer Magnolia tree (multi-trunk) and it appears that 2023 will be another year of pink blooms this Spring. Many of the buds have broken and are showing curl'd-up pink flowers on their tips. A couple of photos below show the current state of this tree in mid-April 2023 in Zone 5b - Northern Illinois. This tree was planted in 2017 , so this make it the seventh growing season (six full, one partial) and it was planted as a six-or-so-foot tree in Summer 2017. Here are the buds that have opened: I'm reading these blooms as an affect of what I'll call a 'normal winter'. Either it didn't get TOO cold, or it didn't get TOO COLD, TOO LATE - to kill the flower buds. This appears to be on a similar schedule to last year - when it was in 'full bloom' in/around April 22nd . The history of this Saucer Magnolia includes one year of no blooms - 2019. Summer 2017 : Planted as a small, multi-trunk tree. Ear...