The White House has planted a new sapling to replace an ancient magnolia named for President Andrew Jackson. The nation's seventh president brought the seeds of a southern magnolia tree from his ...

President Donald Trump is set to help plant a sapling to replace a historic White House tree that had to be cut down due to safety concerns ...

White House The southern magnolia had stood for decades near the ... “folklore tells us” that President Andrew Jackson brought the tree’s seeds from his home near Nashville, Tennessee.

The seed from the original southern magnolia, Trump said, came from Jackson’s home, The Hermitage, in Tennessee. According to the National Park Service, “the seeds were planted to honor the ...

They grow in tree or shrub form ... The most easily recognized type is the iconic Southern magnolia, an evergreen tree with huge, waxy white blooms that appear in summer and can reach up to ...