Your complete guide to magnolia hotspots across the city - from hidden residential streets to famous parks - with best bloom times, photography tips, and a walking route. 🌸 Every March, something magical happens to London. The city that spent the winter in greys and browns suddenly erupts in pale pink and white - and the magnolias are to blame. For a brief, glorious few weeks, residential streets across West and Central London transform into something you'd think was staged

Every year I forget how sudden it is. One week the city is doing its usual grey, wet, six-o'clock-and-already-dark routine, and the next there are magnolias going off like fireworks on residential streets and someone's sitting outside a pub in a t-shirt looking mildly surprised at themselves. London doesn't ease into spring. It sort of flinches into it. I took this set of photos over a few weeks of just going where the light looked good, which in practice meant checking the w