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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 x soulangeana 'Alexandrina'
white flowers with a purple flush at the base. Upright growing and free flowering
MAGNOLIA x soulangeana 'Brozzonii'
large elongated white flowers shaded purple at the base
MAGNOLIA x soulangeana 'Deep Purple Dream'
very dark pink bowl-shaped flowers.
MAGNOLIA x soulangeana 'Lennei'
pink stained crimson
MAGNOLIA x soulangeana 'Lombardy Rose'
pink.
MAGNOLIA x soulangeana 'Picture'
long erect flowers which are purple outside and white inside
MAGNOLIA x soulangeana 'Rustica Rubra'
rich rosy-red cup-shaped flowers
MAGNOLIA x soulangeana 'Satisfaction'
exceptionally large fragrant red-pink flowers in April and May. Petals are red-pink outside and white inside
MAGNOLIA sprengeri 'Diva'
grafts from the original plant at Caerhays which is now dead. Flowers are rosy-pink outside and pale pink inside, and have a distinct erect habit. 'Diva' is italian for 'goddess'
MAGNOLIA sprengeri 'Diva' 'Burncoose'
a deep glowing rose-purple form raised at Burncoose by the late head gardener, Mr Arnold Dance
MAGNOLIA sprengeri 'Lanhydrock'
with us this flowers much later in the season than other sprengeri forms. It also has deeper pink flowers than other forms but clearly a sprengeri shape
MAGNOLIA sprengeri 'Marwood Spring'
a simply splendid form from this well known garden
MAGNOLIA sprengeri 'Westonbirt'
pale pink
MAGNOLIA 'Spring Rite'
very fragrant, large pure white flowers with a hint of pink at the base. Fast growing
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