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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 denudata 'Gere'
flowers two or three weeks later than the typical species with simple ivory white flowers
MAGNOLIA denudata 'Ghost Ship'
large white flowers
MAGNOLIA denudata 'Yellow River'
(cv 'Fei Huang') - yellowish buds fading to creamy-white as the flowers open
MAGNOLIA 'Early Rose'
large rose pink flowers
MAGNOLIA 'Eleanor May'
reddish-purple bowl-shaped flowers.
MAGNOLIA 'Elizabeth'
cup-shaped clear primrose-yellow flowers before and with the new leaves
MAGNOLIA 'Emperor'
large dark reddish-pink to purple flowers, sometimes reblooming.
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
MAGNOLIA 'First Love'
upright purple flowers.
MAGNOLIA 'F. J. Williams'
a sensational new hybrid raised at Caerhays. Early flowering with a striking deep reddish purple flower
MAGNOLIA 'Flamingo'
pink tulip flowers just before the leaves
MAGNOLIA 'Frank’s Masterpiece'
large flowers, red-purple on outside, paler within.
MAGNOLIA 'Galaxy'
rosy purple flowers early in the season
MAGNOLIA 'Genie'
this is the best new magnolia introduction from the point of view of colour to be seen in the UK for many years. Bred by Vance Hooper in New Zealand this soulangeana hybrid flowers very young and appears not to grow too big. The flowers are even darker than M.'Black Tulip' in bud and open an exquisite dark burgundy-red which they retain until they drop
MAGNOLIA 'Gold Star'
a vigorous stellata hybrid which has attractive soft yellow buds and stellata-shaped flowers which fade to creamy-white. Very hardy