Late January Wonder at the Arboretum

TheAloe trail just before sunset. 

Hummingbirds love aloes!

 

Beautiful aloes blooming like crazy.

A look at the aloe section from the Bauer lawn. 

Aloe section. 

Magnolias just starting to bloom in the Meadowbrook garden.  

A lush carpet of light blue Rosemary flowers on the north edge of the herb garden. 

White Magnolia in bloom in the Meadowbrook section. 

Geese seemingly admiring the waterfall. 

Flowering Japanese apricot tree near the herb garden. 

Flowering Japanese apricot tree near the herb garden. Bloom close up. 

Flowering Japanese apricot tree. 

The sunset on Tuesday, January 29th 2019

Is A Spectacular Magnolia Display Here On Its Way?

I went out to the Magnolia section today and took a look at all the flowering magnolias.  It's been a weird year, with extreme variances in temperature in the late part of the summer and early fall. We’ve had several dozen trees flowering in October. When an early bloom like this happens it can sometimes sap the food reserves the magnolias trunk and roots that it stores in fall for its bloom period in January. So I was very surprised to see great majority of the magnolias sporting a high density of flower buds.

Also, usually by this time of year most of our magnolias are blooming. Although there are a few Magnolias with some very small blooms, it seems like all of the magnolias are in bud and synced for what might be a spectacular bloom within the next several weeks.

I took picture of one of the magnolias, and as you can see it has a very high density a flower buds. Stay tuned - this should be a magnificent flowering season for the magnolias.

Flowering magnolia showing lots of buds.