Magnolia figo 'Port Wine' David Geiger and pair with other broadleaf

and pair with other broadleaf evergreens that share the taste for warmth

growing wild in acidic wetlands and damp pine woods from Virginia south through Florida and west to Louisiana

Pseudolarix

clear pink that holds up in the southern spring

and the long bloom season makes Anisacanthus wrightii one of the best hummingbird plants for the southern garden

Magnolia figo 'Port Wine' David Geiger and pair with other broadleafMagnolia figo, the banana shrub, is one of those old Southern garden treasures that scent a whole spring evening, and 'Port Wine' is a fine, deep colored form. Long grown under the name Michelia figo and only lately folded into the genus Magnolia, the plant makes a large, dense, lustrous evergreen shrub or small tree, handsome in leaf all year but grown, above all, for the perfume. The flowers give the shrub its common name. Small, cupped, and creamy