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MAGNOLIA
MAGNOLIAS, named after the French botanist Pierre Magnol, are an ancient genus and it is thought that pollination was by beetles as the trees appeared before bees. Fossilised remains from the family are 95 million years old.
The main centre of distribution is eastern and southeastern Asia with a secondary centre in eastern North America, Central America, the West Indies and South America.
LARGE and SPECIMEN sized magnolias are almost all grafted plants. Many are also very rare.
LARGE plants are 2-3 year old grafts and SPECIMEN plants 3-5 year old grafts.
Different Magnolia varieties grow at very different speeds and therefore the size of a LARGE or a SPECIMEN plant and the exact pot size it is delivered in can vary markedly for plants of identical age and also on time of year, since Magnolias can grow very quickly.
Many more magnolia pictures can be found on the Caerhays Website and The Garden Diary.
Buy Varieties of MAGNOLIA
MAGNOLIA 'Pickard's Snow Queen'
a Pickard's hybrid with large pure white flowers
MAGNOLIA 'Pink Pyramid'
deep purplish-red.
MAGNOLIA 'Porcelain Dove'
spectacular hybrid between M. globosa and M. virginiana with attractive fragrant porcelain white flowers over a three month period
MAGNOLIA x proctoriana
large floriferous magnolia with white flowers in April
MAGNOLIA pseudokobus 'Kubishimodoki'
a stunning new magnolia with pure white seven-inch long flowers which open perfectly flat but then turn sideways or downwards. Flowers are suffused pink at the base. Very slow growing
MAGNOLIA 'Purple Globe'
huge flowers which are dark purple outside and nearly white inside. One of the very best newish magnolias at The Valley Gardens near Windsor
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
MAGNOLIA 'Raspberry Ripple'
pale pink bowl-shaped flowers.
MAGNOLIA 'Rebecca's Perfume'
light pink soulangeana. Strong grower
MAGNOLIA 'Red as Red'
another impressive new hybrid bred by Ian Baldick in New Zealand. This has a globular upright reddish-purple flower which is another 'must have' for any serious collector
MAGNOLIA 'Rose Marie'
rounded tepals, pink
MAGNOLIA rostrata
huge leaves and coppery new growth. Creamy-white flowers and pink seed heads with distinct barbs
MAGNOLIA 'Rouged Alabaster'
white flowers tinged rose pink flowers to purple at the base
MAGNOLIA 'Royal Purple'
a fastigiate habit with flowers which are deep purple outside and paler inside
MAGNOLIA 'Royal Splendour'
salmon-pink flowers with white on the inside