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Chapters

  1. Best yellow magnolias - Video Tip
  2. German Hybrids - Video Tip
  3. Magnolia 'Atlas' x Magnolia 'Lanarth' - Video Tip
  4. Magnolia Colours - Video Tip
  5. Magnolia 'Caerhays Belle' - Video Tip
  6. M. campbellii in late January - Video Tip
  7. Magnolia campbellii 'Alba' & 'Strybing White' - Video Tip
  8. M. cambellii 'Sidbury' - Video Tip
  9. Magnolia globosa - Video Tip
  10. Magnolia insignis - Video Tip
  11. Forms of Magnolia laevifolia - Video Tip
  12. Magnolia 'Lanarth' - Video Tip
  13. M 'Lemon Star', 'Tranquility', 'Peach Brandy' & 'Banana Split' - Video Tip
  14. Magnolia 'Lois', 'Peachy' & 'Limelight' - Video Tip
  15. Magnolia 'March till Frost', 'Star Wars', 'Yakeo', 'Cleopatra', 'Black Tulip' - Video Tip
  16. Magnolia 'Mighty Mouse' - Video Tip
  17. Magnolia 'Peachy' and 'Daybreak' Video Tip
  18. M. 'Pink Flush' in June - Video Tip
  19. Magnolia 'Tikitere' - Video Tip
  20. M. 'Star Wars', doltsopa & veitchii - Video Tip
  21. M. sieboldii, sieboldii sinensis, x wieseneri, 'Summer Solstice' - Video Tip
  22. M. sprengeri 'Diva' - Video Tip
  23. M. 'Altas', 'Raspberry Fun', 'Sunrise' & x veitchii - Video Tip
  24. Magnolia 'F.J. Williams' - Video Tip
  25. Magnolia 'Tropicana' - Video Tip
  26. Magnolia rostrata - Video Tip
  27. Magnolia 'Todd's Forty Niner' - Video Tip
  28. M. 'Todd's Forty Niner' Late January - Video Tip
  29. Various Magnolias in early March - Video Tip
  30. Multi-coloured Magnolias - Video Tip
  31. Michelia foveolata - Video Tip
  32. Michelia macclurei - Video Tip
  33. 5 Michelias in April - Video Tip
  34. M. 'Woodsman' x 'Patriot' - Video Tip
  35. Unnamed hybrids - Video Tip
  36. Plants to buy now

Magnolia - Spotlight Videos

Best yellow magnolias - Video Tip


German Hybrids - Video Tip

 

New 4-year-old magnolia hybrids bred and raised by John Gottschalk at Lunaplant in Germany which are now part of the National Collection of Magnolias at Caerhays;

0:00 - Magnolia ‘Snowblood’
1:37 - Magnolia ‘Vulcan’s Forge’
2:18 - Magnolia ‘Flaming Heart’
2:53 - Magnolia ‘Venus’ x M. ‘Black Tulip’ x M. ‘Pickard’s Ruby’
3:57 - Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ x M. ‘Darjeeling’
4:42 - Magnolia ‘Vulcan’ x M. ‘Black Tulip’


Magnolia 'Atlas' x Magnolia 'Lanarth' - Video Tip

Flowering for the first time in 2024.  First crossed in 2009.


Magnolia Colours - Video Tip


Magnolia 'Caerhays Belle' - Video Tip


M. campbellii in late January - Video Tip


Magnolia campbellii 'Alba' & 'Strybing White' - Video Tip

 

M. campbellii alba 'Strybing White' - Video Tip


M. cambellii 'Sidbury' - Video Tip


Magnolia globosa - Video Tip


Magnolia insignis - Video Tip


Forms of Magnolia laevifolia - Video Tip


Magnolia 'Lanarth' - Video Tip

Charles takes us around two Magnolia campbellii subsp. mollicomata 'Lanarth' at Caerhays.  One original 'Lanarth' seedling and the other from New Zealand.


M 'Lemon Star', 'Tranquility', 'Peach Brandy' & 'Banana Split' - Video Tip


Magnolia 'Lois', 'Peachy' & 'Limelight' - Video Tip


Magnolia 'March till Frost', 'Star Wars', 'Yakeo', 'Cleopatra', 'Black Tulip' - Video Tip

Charles in the garden in early September talking about secondary flowering in magnolias in early autumn.

Five varieties which regularly do this:-

0:00 - Magnolia ‘March till Frost’

2:57 - Magnolia ‘Star Wars’

4:43 - Magnolia ‘Yakeo’

6:02 - Magnolia ‘Cleopatra’

6:43 - Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’
 


Magnolia 'Mighty Mouse' - Video Tip


Magnolia 'Peachy' and 'Daybreak' Video Tip


M. 'Pink Flush' in June - Video Tip


Magnolia 'Tikitere' - Video Tip


M. 'Star Wars', doltsopa & veitchii - Video Tip


M. sieboldii, sieboldii sinensis, x wieseneri, 'Summer Solstice' - Video Tip


M. sprengeri 'Diva' - Video Tip

'Burncoose'

'Fire'


M. 'Altas', 'Raspberry Fun', 'Sunrise' & x veitchii - Video Tip

M. 'Altas', 'Raspberry Fun', 'Sunrise' & x veitchii  at the end of March 2021

0:00​ - Magnolia ‘Atlas’
1:16​ - Magnolia ‘Raspberry Fun’ and panorama
2:38​ - Magnolia ‘Sunrise’ and panorama
4:05​ - Magnolia x veitchii - Magnolia panorama

 


Magnolia 'F.J. Williams' - Video Tip


Magnolia 'Tropicana' - Video Tip


Magnolia rostrata - Video Tip


Magnolia 'Todd's Forty Niner' - Video Tip


M. 'Todd's Forty Niner' Late January - Video Tip


Various Magnolias in early March - Video Tip

 

0:00​ - Magnolia campbellii ‘Valentine’s Torch’
2:12​ - Magnolia ‘Caerhays Belle’ (seedling) and Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ and Rhododendron grande
3:02​ - Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ (true)
4:32​ - Panorama around Donkey Shoe

 

 


Multi-coloured Magnolias - Video Tip


Michelia foveolata - Video Tip

Charles Williams discussing Michelia foveolata in the Burncoose Gardens.


Michelia macclurei - Video Tip

Charles Williams discussing Michelia macclurei in the Burncoose Gardens 


5 Michelias in April - Video Tip

Charles in the garden over the Easter weekend looking at 5 lovely Michelias.

0:00 – M. ‘Fairy Cream’
2:00 – M. ‘Fairy White’
3:38 – M. ‘Touch of Pink’
5:30 – M. ‘Mixed up Miss’
7:00 – M. ‘Fairy Blush’

 


M. 'Woodsman' x 'Patriot' - Video Tip


Unnamed hybrids - Video Tip

Jaimie the Head Gardener at Caerhays with a couple of newly flowering Magnolia hybrids which are as yet unnamed. 



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