magnolia stellata

The Puget Sound Bonsai Club is doing a winter silhouette show, and I'm thinking of submitting my magnolia, which is in good shape right now and generally has leaves that are to big for summer displays, and flowers to early for the spring show. So I spent some time today taking some pictures and...

I have been trying to dip my toe into deciduous trees and I just got a Magnolia stellata from the local nursery and I had a few questions about pruning hopefully someone was able to answer. They currently have white tips all over, which I assume are the flower buds. When should I prune these...

I have a star magnolia with a primary branch that has nice caliper, but is long and doesn't have a lot of foliage close in. I'm thinking about cutting it off or cutting it back. The tree has thrown off some buds in the same spot, so I have options for a replacement option. But I'm unsure if I...

My magnolia has some leaves that are yellow. I'm not sure if it's to much sun, not enough water or wrong amounts of fertilizer? Tree was repotted this year and is less vigorous than last year, which is to be expected, but I'm not sure what else might be wrong. Tree gets full sun, I'm watering...

I've had this Star Magnolia for a little over a year and I was initially drawn to its twin trunks. My plan was to eventually shorten the left trunk and make the right more dominant. But this morning I looked out the window at it and was struck by the idea of converting it instead to a single...