Magnolia virginiana (Dodd's small leaf) prophouse-winter-2028 sculptural silhouette

sculptural silhouette

further boosting its ecological benefits

and companions of ferns

and expect a fountain of foliage topped for months by flowers that sway on the least breeze

Magnolia virginiana (Dodd's small leaf) prophouse-winter-2028 sculptural silhouetteSweetbay magnolia is one of the loveliest and most useful of the native magnolias, a tree of moist and swampy ground across the eastern United States from Massachusetts to Texas. The northern plants, Magnolia virginiana var. virginiana, are shrubby and deciduous; the southern, var. australis, grow into larger, evergreen trees. All share the sweetbay's gifts: leaves silvery white beneath that flash in the wind, and creamy, intensely fragrant flowers