Is a magnolia (saucer and star) common in central Indiana?
A common front-yard specimen tree across central Indiana and reliably hardy here, but sited badly more often than not — a south or west exposure pushes it into bloom during a warm February stretch and a March freeze takes it. Southern magnolia, the evergreen one, is marginal in this part of the state and mostly shows up as a winter-burned struggler in a protected corner.
Why that matters for tree work
In central Indiana this means the deciduous spring-flowering magnolias, not the evergreen southern magnolia — and the defining fact is that it blooms before it leafs out, so a normal Indiana late freeze turns the entire display to brown mush overnight in many springs. The other thing that puts one on a quote is magnolia scale, which drips honeydew onto cars, decks, and driveways all summer long.
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