Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Magnolia Muncher?, 0 by ericabelle

ericabelle wrote:
Hello! I have a Tulip Magnolia, 3rd year in the ground, whose buds get massacred every spring. They brown and die, and some of them look like half of the top has been bitten off. Hopefully you can see this in the photo. Is this some sort of pest, or are the low temps doing this? Right now, we are having lows in the 30's and probably won't be frost-free until mid-April. Oh, and I also need to mention that this just happened in the last couple of weeks. Any advice would be much appreciated - I was really hoping to have several different kinds of magnolias on our property.