Spring-Flowering Trees in the Mid South Announce Spring with Pizaz

It's our thinking that you can never have too many flowering trees in your garden spring, summer, or fall.

Watching the bluebirds and cardinals making their nest in these trees is a restful activity during the busy spring season.

It would be nice to say that the picture above is our backyard, but this tree is at the Niagara Botanical Garden that we visited a few years ago.

That year we got to enjoy two springs, Canada's and the United States!

Below is a list of our favorite spring-flowering trees for the spring.

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• Cornillian Cherry (Cornus mas)
• Yoshino Cherry (Prunus x yedoensis Potomac Cherry)
• Japanese Flowering Cherry (Prunus 'Kanzan')
• Sweet Bay Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)
• Wada's Memory Magnolia (Magnolia salicifolia)
• Golden Chain Tree (Laburnum x watereri)
• Fringe tree (Chionanthus virginicus)
• American snowdrop tree; silver bell (Halesia diptera)
• Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia)
• Redbud (Cercis chingii)

We are all familiar with the wonderful fragrance of the Southern Magnolia, but the Sweet bay magnolia, with it's smaller trunk and flowers are equally intoxicating.

Visitors to your garden will wonder where the wonderful aroma is coming from..many never suspecting that it is one of your trees.

If you need more ideas for spring-flowering trees for areas outside zone 6, but still in the Southeast, I highly recommend the book Smartgarden Regional Guide: Southeast (American Horticultural Society Smartgarden Regional Garden Guides)

I have this book and it is indispensable. The photos are great and it offers ten SmartGarden tenants in Part I, a plant catalog in Part II, and gardening techniques in Part III.

Another great book I would also suggest that we use all the time is The Southern Gardener's Book Of Lists It includes trees, perennials, annuals, vines, shrubs, roses and more.

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