Plants by mail order since 1984, over 4100 plants online today

Nursery & Gardens open: Mon - Sat 8:30 - 17:00 & Sun 10:00 - 16:00

Pop up café: open weather dependent

My Burncoose

Basket

Magnolias - for larger gardens

These are our selection of the very best newer and more recently introduced Magnolia varieties as they grow in the garden here, they are best suited to the larger garden. They will all grow into medium or large trees eventually.

Caerhays Castle gardens has one of the National Collections of Magnolia - read more.

MAGNOLIA 'Apollo'

rich violet-purple flowers at first turning purple-rosy-violet later. Highly scented

Medium

Gift-wrapping available

£70.00 each

Large

£80.00 each

Estimated availability autumn 2024 Any time SEPT-DEC
Not yet confirmed. Could be any time between September and December.

Notify me when this plant is available to order

MAGNOLIA 'Black Tulip'

the darkest purple-red flowered magnolia before the arrival of M.'Genie'

Medium

Gift-wrapping available

£70.00 each

Large

£80.00 each

Specimen

£95.00 each

Estimated availability autumn 2024 Any time SEPT-DEC
Not yet confirmed. Could be any time between September and December.

Notify me when this plant is available to order

MAGNOLIA 'Brixton Belle'

campbellii type - this excellent hybrid flowers at a very young age. Large cup and saucer blooms, rich pink outside, and paler within

Large

£80.00 each

MAGNOLIA x brooklynensis 'Yellow Bird'

introduced at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens in 1967 as a hybrid between M. acuminata and M. x brooklynensis. Flowers are yellow with a slight greenish tinge

Medium

£70.00 each

Large

£80.00 each

Estimated availability autumn 2024 Any time SEPT-DEC
Not yet confirmed. Could be any time between September and December.

Notify me when this plant is available to order

Specimen

£95.00 each

MAGNOLIA campbellii 'Betty Jessel'

one of the very best but still too little known hybrids with large deep crimson flowers opening late in the season

Medium

£70.00 each

Estimated availability autumn 2024 Any time SEPT-DEC
Not yet confirmed. Could be any time between September and December.

Notify me when this plant is available to order

MAGNOLIA 'Cleopatra'

similar in colour to M. 'Lanarth' this new New Zealand hybrid is a rich reddish purple with a metallic sheen

Medium

Gift-wrapping available

£70.00 each

Large

£80.00 each

MAGNOLIA 'Felix Jury'

this is a Jury hybrid between M. 'Vulcan' and a seedling of M. 'Iolanthe'. This impressive magnolia has white and port wine red flowers shaped like water lilies

Medium

Gift-wrapping available

£70.00 each

Large

£80.00 each

Specimen

£95.00 each

Estimated availability autumn 2024 Any time SEPT-DEC
Not yet confirmed. Could be any time between September and December.

Notify me when this plant is available to order

MAGNOLIA 'J.C. Williams'

a Caerhays hybrid between sprengeri 'Diva' and sargentiana robusta with a most striking and unusual deep red colour which appears on opening almost black from a distance. Flowers at a very young age and is an absolute must for any enthusiast

Medium

Gift-wrapping available

£70.00 each

MAGNOLIA 'Lemon Star'

(syn. Swedish Star) - a quite outstanding new magnolia which flowers from a very young age. The flowers emerge as greenish-yellow opening flat to a pure yellow before fading to cream. This will emerge as one of the most popular yellow magnolias in the next few years

Medium

£70.00 each

Estimated availability autumn 2024 Any time SEPT-DEC
Not yet confirmed. Could be any time between September and December.

Notify me when this plant is available to order

Large

£80.00 each

Estimated availability autumn 2024 Any time SEPT-DEC
Not yet confirmed. Could be any time between September and December.

Notify me when this plant is available to order

MAGNOLIA 'Margaret Helen'

rose-red campbellii-type bowl-shaped blooms which appear freely at a young age. An exceptionally clear colour

Medium

£70.00 each

Large

£80.00 each

MAGNOLIA 'Old Port'

our vote as the best new magnolia to flower in 2011. Wine-purple petals on the outside, white inside. Grows to about 12 feet in New Zealand

Medium

Gift-wrapping available

£70.00 each

Large

£80.00 each

Estimated availability autumn 2024 Any time SEPT-DEC
Not yet confirmed. Could be any time between September and December.

Notify me when this plant is available to order

MAGNOLIA 'Purple Sensation'

a new introduction with large cup-shaped blooms of glowing orchid purple. Mature height is only 8 metres. Similar in colour to M.Lanarth but bred by New Zealand breeder Ian Baldick

Medium

Gift-wrapping available

£70.00 each

Large

£80.00 each

MAGNOLIA 'Serene'

a strangely underrated Jury hybrid with large bowl-shaped bright purplish pink flowers. One of the last tree magnolias to flower each spring

Large

£80.00 each

MAGNOLIA 'Star Wars'

free-flowering form with star-shaped bright pink flowers. One of the most popular of the new crop of New Zealand hybrids which grows quickly and flowers at a young age

Medium

£70.00 each

Estimated availability autumn 2024 Any time SEPT-DEC
Not yet confirmed. Could be any time between September and December.

Notify me when this plant is available to order

Large

£80.00 each

Estimated availability autumn 2024 Any time SEPT-DEC
Not yet confirmed. Could be any time between September and December.

Notify me when this plant is available to order

MAGNOLIA yuchelia

although deciduous this is one of the first crosses between a michelia and a magnolia. It has the scent of a michelia with long drooping flowers which are pink outside tinged and striped with green and white inside. Limited availability

Large

£80.00 each

Magnolias - for larger gardens

See Also..