Flowering Tree - Page 5 of 9 - Fine Gardening

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    Seven-son flower

    Heptacodium miconioides

    The tiered branches of this fast-growing species are covered with white blossoms for over a month, starting in late summer.

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    Gold angel’s trumpet

    Brugmansia 'Charles Grimaldi'

    Foot-long blossoms are nocturnally fragrant, and pour out from narrow calyces of light yellow, to terminate in fluted, reflexed openings the hues of golden summer squash.

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    White enkianthus

    Enkianthus perulatus

    This is perhaps the most refined Enkianthus, bearing dainty, white pendulous bells in May.

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    Bigleaf magnolia

    Magnolia macrophylla

    This deciduous species has remarkable leaves that are over 3 feet long and 1 foot wide.

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    Lily tree

    Magnolia denudata 'Forrest's Pink'

    This cultivar creates a fragrant cloud of rich bubblegum-pink blossoms on bare branches in spring.

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    Oyama magnolia

    Magnolia sieboldii

    This spreading, deciduous shrub grows 15 to 25 feet tall and blooms in late spring to late summer, with white fragrant blossoms.

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    African scurf pea

    Psoralea pinnata

    This short-lived shrub or small tree with feathery foliage is blanketed in late spring with fragrant, pea-shaped violet blooms with white wings.

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    ‘Superba’ littleleaf lilac

    Syringa pubescens ssp. microphylla 'Superba'

    This fragrant cultivar bears single rose-pink flowers in midseason, which often rebloom in late summer or autumn.

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    ‘Primrose’ lilac

    Syringa vulgaris ‘Primrose’

    This unique cultivar bears slightly fragrant, creamy yellowish blossoms in midseason.

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    ‘Sensation’ lilac

    Syringa vulgaris ‘Sensation’

    In midseason this unique cultivar bears slightly fragrant, single purple blossoms with distinct white margins.