How to Grow and Care for Sweetbay Magnolia - The Spruce
Mar 24, 2022 · Sweetbay magnolia, also known as swamp magnolia, is a beautiful flowering tree (or shrub) native to North America that can be either evergreen or deciduous, depending on the climate where it is grown.
Magnolia virginiana - Plant Finder - Missouri Botanical Garden
Magnolia virginiana, commonly called sweet bay magnolia, is native to the southeastern United States north along the Atlantic coast to New York. In the northern part of its cultivated growing range, it typically grows as either a 15-20' tall tree with a spreading, rounded crown or as a shorter, suckering, open, multi-stemmed shrub.
Sweetbay Magnolia: History, Lifespan, Growth Rate, Cultivars
Mar 2, 2024 · Reaching 12 to 20 feet high with an equal spread, sweetbay magnolia works as a small shade tree or striking shrub border specimen where wind exposes its leaves’ silvery undersides. On average, it can live for 80 to 120 years.
Magnolia virginiana - Wikipedia
Magnolia virginiana, most commonly known as sweetbay magnolia, or merely sweetbay (also laurel magnolia, swampbay, swamp magnolia, white bay, or beaver tree), [3] is a member of the magnolia family, Magnoliaceae.
Magnolia virginiana - North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant …
The sweet bay magnolia is a graceful, slender, flowering, deciduous to semi-evergreen native shrub or tree. it typically grows 10 to 35 feet tall and equally as wide. As a tree, it has a spreading, open rounded crown, or it may be a shorter, suckering, open, multi-stemmed shrub.
Sweetbay magnolia - The Morton Arboretum
Sweetbay magnolia is a late-blooming tree native to the eastern United States. It has fragrant, creamy-white flowers and glossy, dark green leaves with silvery undersides. This small tree is an excellent choice near patios, wood edges, and shrub borders.
Sweetbay Magnolia - Piedmont Master Gardeners
Sweetbay magnolia is a small, gracefully shaped tree that has a lot to offer throughout the year. This native ornamental bears attractive, lemon-scented flowers in spring and sporadically through the summer. Glossy green foliage persists on the tree nearly all year long.
Sweetbay magnolia is an excellent native tree - LSU AgCenter
Nov 17, 2017 · They are not as large and showy as the flowers of Southern magnolias, but they have the same rich, lemony fragrance that many Louisiana gardeners know and love so well. The sweetbay magnolia is a medium-size tree that grows to be around 30 to 50 feet tall with a spread of 20 to 30 feet.
Sweetbay Magnolia Information - Gardening Know How
Mar 29, 2021 · Sweetbay magnolia trees feature creamy white spring and summer flowers with a sweet, lemony fragrance and leaves that flutter in the slightest breeze to flash their silvery undersides. Read here to find out more about sweetbay magnolia planting and care.
A Guide to Growing a Sweet Bay Magnolia Tree - ShrubHub
Feb 8, 2024 · Native to the southeastern United States, the Sweet Bay magnolia Tree is known for its creamy white blooms against dark green leaves with silver undersides. In its natural range, of the deep south with warm climates it belongs to evergreen trees.