In the world of home decor, magnolia is a best-selling colour that outlasts every new craze because it is so easy to live with, but its biggest fan would not call it exciting. On the inside of the loose, cup shaped flowers held on a magnolia tree, the sheeny colour has all the allure you could hope for, especially when backed with pink, as here.
Magnolia x soulangeana is widely grown in Mississippi, which is where I took these pictures one January. The flowers can be pale or deep pink or more on the creamy side.
Their folk name, the saucer magnolia, puzzles me because tea saucers are so much flatter than the flowers, but if the reference is to flying saucers, I get it! Being carried on a network of bare stems well before the leaves appear gives them an unearthly look.
Magnolias have an evocative fragrance: my sweetheart says whenever and wherever he smells them, he feels like he’s home in the South.
Shared for Cee’s Flower of the Day. Her choice is a beautiful, velvety iris.
Susan Rushton 
Such beauties!
Thanks, Laurie.
We have a totally different magnolia here in Texas. They bloom in the summer, have a white bloom, very waxy, with a slightly lemony scent. The leaves are dark green and very shiny. Growing up in Ohio, I remember the pink ones that bloom in the spring, but I would think Mississippi would have the southern ones we have here.
If I’m not mistaken, that’s the one they’ve put on their new state flag (Magnolia grandiflora).
A lovely post and picture
Thank you!
It’s a pleasure always
A wonderful collection of beautiful magnolias!!! 🙂
I’m glad you liked them.
stunning 🙂
They’re bountiful and generous where the climate allows them to be themselves.