Springtime in Missouri think Natalie Wood fragrant and colorful with blossoming dogwoods and redbuds . Missouri streets are lined with tidy blooming Bradford pears , and spectacular flowering crabapples are everywhere . Missouri , however , is home to many more anthesis trees that clear its wild position or home base gardens from as early on as March until the hot dog days of July .

Saucer Magnolia

Reaching a height and breadth of 20 to 25 animal foot , dish antenna magnolia ( magnolia x soulangiana ) signals the terminal of wintertime with its early - spring presentation of tremendous blooms . These fragrant , nine - petaled bloom , up to 10 inches across , open before the Tree leaf out . They clear up the streets of St. Louis in eastern Missouri as ahead of time as March , concord to the Missouri Botanical Garden . The outsides of the blanched flower petal have a typical regal flush . heyday give way to green seed cone that redden as they age , releasing their seeds to dangle from slender threads . engraft these trees in sunny to partly shady locations with moist , rich , well - drain loam . deflect exceptionally smashed or juiceless spots and protect them from former spring frosts that can damage their buds . provide up to five twelvemonth for the first blooms to appear . These disease - and - blighter - resistant trees are extremely effective planted as single specimens .

Green Hawthorn

May - flower green hawthorn ( genus Crataegus viridis ) reach between 25 and 35 feet with an adequate feast . This haw offer Missouri garden with four - season sake , and unlike most of its congenator , has very few thorns , if any . Blooming green hawthorn is cover with 2 - column inch clusters of snowy prime that contrast dramatically with its glossy dark green leaves . Crabapple - sized yield comply the bloom , becoming brilliant red in the fall and remaining on the trees all wintertime . The fall leaf are scarlet to purpleness . Green hawthorn can treat drought and urban pollution . It does best in full sun and wry , well - drain soil . It ’s somewhat susceptible to rusting , but far less so than other hawthorn multifariousness .

Fragrant Mimosa

Just when Missouri summers are building to their hot and humid July crescendo , fragrant mimosa ( albizia julibrissin ) blossoms begin to aromatise the melodic line . A rapid grower , fragrant mimosa hit between 25 and 40 feet . tree diagram have delicate , fern - corresponding leave up to 20 inches long . Large pinkish flowerheads attractive to bees appear in midsummer , followed by flat seedpods that persist on the tree diagram until fountain . Mimosa drops its leave-taking with the first fall frost . These Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree expand in and flower best in gay or partly shady locations with light , fertile well - drain grime . High summertime temperatures do n’t unnerve them , but extend drouth will . Plant them where drop flowers or fall leaves and seedpod wo n’t be a concern . Mimosa is a vigorous self - sower , so you may have seedlings volunteering each fountain .

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