With spring ever so close, the urge to have that beautiful garden color can seem nagging. Here are ways to force the start of ...

For about two weeks every February, San Francisco is privy to a breathtaking sight: the peak bloom of Golden Gate Park’s ...

While freezing temperatures are always something gardeners and enthusiasts should keep an eye on, the flowering trees will ...

For about two weeks every February, San Francisco is privy to a breathtaking sight: the peak bloom of Golden Gate Park’s ...

The branches of some spring-flowering trees and shrubs can be pruned and coaxed to bloom indoors. Forsythia, pussy willow, serviceberry, crabapple, magnolia, redbud and many fruit trees will all ...

Yesterday, the magnolia tree in the courtyard of my apartment building burst into bloom. The pelting rain that drove me ...

What’s a tulip tree? There are two plant species grown in Marin that are called tulip trees. Magnolia soulangeana, a ...

Sonoma Botanical Garden is self-pollinating a rare magnolia from China in hopes of cultivating more specimens to preserve the genetic line.

Magnolias are beginning to bud and some to bloom in gardens open to the public in Glen Ellen, Sebastopol and Occidental.