As daylengths shorten, nights get cooler, and winds swirl leaf drop from trees is accelerating. Leaves of evergreens, however, persist throughout the winter. One of the few broadleaf evergreens is the ...

I saw my first magnolia flower of the season earlier this month, a solitary, ghostly-white, cup-shaped bloom unfurling high on the bare branches of a tree growing in a sheltered Dublin woodland garden ...