[PHOTO] Three photos of front yard flowers on Lansdowne Avenue

[rfmcdonald]

My heart was warmed yesterday evening when I walked home along Lansdowne Avenue and saw the flowers in the front yards of the different homes. The tulips and daffodils were lovely, but the sheer heft of the flowering trees impressed me. Were those five-petal white flowers in the second photos product of a tilia or linden tree, as my later googling suggested?

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[movingfinger]

Hit-and-run friends-of-friendslist reading gardener here! The first tree is a star magnolia, Magnolia stellata, originally from Japan but widely planted worldwide as an ornamental. The second tree is a very pretty saucer magnolia (blooms out before the leaves), originally bred in France but also popular worldwide now. Some saucer magnolias are fragrant!

Linden flowers after leafing out; the flowers are small cream-yellow puffs in clusters along long stems. It is very fragrant.

[rfmcdonald]

Hello, and thank you for that info!