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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.
Further Reading....
- Magnolia - A guide to sizing and pricing
- Magnolia - Care Guide
- Magnolia - Hybridisation
- Magnolia - Propagation
- Magnolia - Spotlight Videos
- Planting to avoid allergic reactions and asthma
- Shrubs and Trees - Seeds - 1) Collecting Seeds
- Shrubs and Trees - Seeds - 2) Storing Seeds
- Shrubs and Trees - Seeds - 3) Planting Seeds
- Trees - Care Guide
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DeciduousLeaves to 25cm (10in) long
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Height15m (50ft) -
Spread10m (33ft)
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Tree
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Hardy - average winterHardy through most of the UK apart from inland valleys, at altitude and central/northerly locations. May suffer foliage damage and stem dieback in harsh winters in cold gardens. Plant can withstand temperatures down to -10°C (14°F) -
Full sunShelter from strong winds. -
Partial shade
- Details
- Mature Size
- Tips and Advice
- Goes Well With
- Planting Combinations
- Other Suggestions
- See Also...
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Additional Features
Burncoose specialitySee Burncoose Speciality group for more details
Pests & DiseasesScale insects, honey fungus, coral spot.
Place of originGarden origin. 1967. A Caerhays hybrid, Cornwall, UK. -
Burncoose SpecialitiesCaerhays bred plantsMagnolias - larger gardens
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Core PlantsMagnolia
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Flower ShapeCup-and-saucer-shaped
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HardinessFrost hardy (down to -5)
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Leaf margin
Entire(see photos above) -
Leaf shape
Elliptic
(see photos above)
Oblong(see photos above)
Ovate(see photos above) -
Seasonal InterestSpringWinter
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Soil ConditionsFertile moist well-drained soilHumus-rich.Neutral to acid soil
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Tree ShapeBroadly conicalSpreading with age
Magnolia - A guide to sizing and pricing
Magnolia - Care Guide
- Cultivation of Magnolias
- Pruning Magnolias - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Pruning shoots on grafted rootstock - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Pruning small & large shoots below the graft - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Pruning & Shaping Magnolia - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Soil Conditions
- Planting Locations
- Planting a magnolia - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Secondary Flowering - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Scraping deadwood to see if alive - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Pests and Diseases
- Magnolia Slug Protection - Short Video Tip ondemand_video
- Slug Protection - Longer Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing Ivy - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Scale Insect on Magnolias - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Further Reading
Magnolia - Hybridisation
Magnolia - Propagation
- Planting Magnolia from Seeds
- Magnolia seed collection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Magnolia Seedlings - Video Tip ondemand_video
Magnolia - Spotlight Videos
- Best yellow magnolias - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Magnolia 'Atlas' x Magnolia 'Lanarth' - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Magnolia 'Caerhays Belle'
- M. campbellii in late January - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Magnolia campbellii 'Alba' - Video Tip ondemand_video
- M. campbellii alba 'Strybing White' - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Magnolia globosa - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Magnolia insignis - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Magnolia 'Lanarth' - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Magnolia 'Lois', 'Peachy' & 'Limelight'
- M 'Lemon Star', 'Tranquility', 'Peach Brandy' & 'Banana Split' - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Magnolia 'March till Frost', 'Star Wars', 'Yakeo', 'Cleopatra', 'Black Tulip' - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Magnolia 'Peachy' and 'Daybreak' Video Tip ondemand_video
- M. 'Pink Flush' in June - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Magnolia 'Tikitere' - Video Tip ondemand_video
- M. 'Star Wars', doltsopa & veitchii - Video Tip ondemand_video
- M. sieboldii, sieboldii sinensis, x wieseneri, 'Summer Solstice' - Video Tip ondemand_video
- M. sprengeri 'Diva' 'Burncoose'
- M. 'Altas', 'Raspberry Fun', 'Sunrise' & x veitchii - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Magnolia 'F.J. Williams' - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Magnolia 'Tropicana' - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Magnolia 'Todd's Forty Niner' - Video Tip ondemand_video
- M. 'Todd's Forty Niner' Late January - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Various Magnolias in early March - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Michelia foveolata - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Michelia macclurei - Video Tip ondemand_video
- 5 Michelias in April - Video Tip ondemand_video
- M. 'Woodsman' x 'Patriot' - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Unnamed hybrids - Video Tip ondemand_video
Planting to avoid allergic reactions and asthma
- Allergic reactions and pollen
- Plants which produce masses of pollen - to avoid
- Plants producing little pollen - relatively safe!
Shrubs and Trees - Seeds - 1) Collecting Seeds
- When is the right time to collect seeds?
- When are seeds actually ripe and ready for collection?
- Magnolia seed collection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Cornus capitata seed collection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Lithocarpus Seed Collection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Rhododendron seed collecting - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Camellia seed collection - Video Tip ondemand_video
Shrubs and Trees - Seeds - 2) Storing Seeds
- Storing seeds over winter
- Embothrium Collecting and Storing Seeds
- Decaisnea Seed Collection & Potting
Shrubs and Trees - Seeds - 3) Planting Seeds
Trees - Care Guide
- How to plant a tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- How to plant a tree
- Ties - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Restaking fallen young trees - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Fallen old tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Clearing up fallen beech tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Spring pruning - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing side shoots - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Pruning and Shaping Magnolia - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Deer protection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Weed Spraying - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing Ivy - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing wire protection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Tree Survey - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Crown uplift - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing shoots below graft - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing peeling bark - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Maintaining variegation - Video Tip ondemand_video
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Buy Varieties of MAGNOLIA
MAGNOLIA 'Butterflies'
a hybrid between M.acuminata and M.denudata with rich yellow flowers and red stamens
Medium
Gift-wrapping available
£70.00 each
MAGNOLIA 'Caerhays Belle'
a hybrid raised at Caerhays Castle with huge saucer-shaped salmon-pink flowers
MAGNOLIA 'Caerhays Philip'
deep pink flowers with much paler insides to the tepals
Medium
Gift-wrapping available
£70.00 each
MAGNOLIA 'Caerhays Splendour'
vibrant pink
MAGNOLIA 'Caerhays Surprise'
a hybrid between M. mollicomata and M. liliiflora 'Nigra' which flowers at a young age and is suitable for smaller gardens. The flowers open a dark purplish-red and fade to mauvish-purple
MAGNOLIA 'Cameo'
pinkish-red outside to the tepals and white flushed purple within
Medium
Gift-wrapping available
£70.00 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
MAGNOLIA campbellii 'Charles Raffill'
rose-purple flowers on the outside and white with a marginal pink flush on the inside
MAGNOLIA campbellii 'Darjeeling'
dark rose coloured flowers
MAGNOLIA campbellii subsp. mollicomata 'Lanarth'
large cyclamen-purple flowers of this subspecies of M. mollicomata raised at Lanarth
MAGNOLIA campbellii 'Princess Margaret'
large flowers red-purple on the outside and cream inside.
MAGNOLIA campbellii 'Sidbury'
raised at Sidbury Manor in Devon this is one of the earliest campbellii crosses to flower in Cornwall with attractive lighter pink flowers
Medium
Gift-wrapping available
£70.00 each
MAGNOLIA campbellii 'Werrington'
a Forrest original which grows at Werrington Park in North Cornwall
Medium
Gift-wrapping available
£70.00 each
MAGNOLIA 'Carlos'
good yellow flowers but sometimes appearing with the leaves. A cross between M. acuminata var subcordata and M. denudata
MAGNOLIA 'Cecil Nice'
an absolute picture when in full flower with row upon row of upright white flowers
Useful extras...
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A useful fertiliser suitable for use on a wide variety of plants. Q4 provides all the nutrients and trace elements essential for vigorous growth, abundant flowering and ripening of fruit.
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Fertilisers & Feeds - Empathy
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Rootgrow Ericoid mycorrhizal fungi
This specially adapted Rootgrow™ mycorrhizal fungi will boost the growth of acid-loving plants like rhododendrons, azaleas, heathers and blueberries.
It contains ericoid and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, which are found in poor acidic soils where ericaceous plants naturally grow.
Only £7.50
Fertilisers & Feeds - Empathy
All-purpose Seaweed Stimulant
All-purpose organic concentrated seaweed feed that is a ready to use, derived from sustainable harvested kelp, that can be used on all outdoor and indoor plants, except acid loving plants.
Perfect used in conjunction with Rootgrow™.
Only £7.50
