Beautiful flora, guys.
We enjoy magnolias here in Southern California, too, SD.
Your photos are marvelous, as usual, and mine is over-exposed, but here is my contribution to the deck parade of beauties.
I claim absolutely no credit at all for this space and its floribunda. My beautiful wife has nurtured every leaf.
First the path leading TO the deck . . . and then the path leading AWAY from the deck.
The line of trees behind the flowers is the twelve-foot-high wall of juniper trees, densely interwoven over the decades . . .
--Z
(click on images to enlarge)