Magnolia tree

I live them and think they are some of the most beautiful trees out there. Many hate the leaves they shed but that doesn’t bother me because I have a lawnmower. The Little Gem magnolias are great.

nothing but pros. spring flowers, great smell, beautiful leaves, native to our area, hard wood tree, doesnt drop branches.

Cons are the cones but a mover takes those out

I love Magnolias. I was going to plant a Magnolia Stelatta "Jane Platt" one this year. I love the pink and white blooms.

Cons: leaves, cones, bare ground underneath, shallow/above-ground roots.

Pros: beautiful tree, blooms, southern icon

I grew up in the Lower 9th Ward in an old shotgun house and the neighbor right next door had 2 HUGE magnolia trees right on his side of the fence of the property line.

I hated those trees with a passion as a kid since I was the one who had to rake up all the damn leaves, pick up all the damn cones they eventually dropped and washed lots of bird crap off cars once they ate the red seeds the cones made. My dad died when I was 8 and I took over a lot of his chores.

They drop leaves year round and it's not like you can pile them up and they will compost since they are thick and waxy leaves. They take forever even after mulching with a mower.

I remember begging my mom to have someone cut the limbs on our side of the fence, but she wouldn't------until I moved out at 17 and it fell on her and my 2 sisters to deal with it. THEN they got cut----damn trees looked like a couple of "P's" when they were done.

Regular magnolias are very messy.

Little Gems do not drop as many leaves and they do not get as large as the regular magnolias.

They are pretty. But the leaves are terrible. They fall year round.