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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 kobus 'Pink Kobus'
light pink flowers rather than white
MAGNOLIA 'Kronos'
white with pink at the base
Gift-wrapping available
MAGNOLIA 'Lamellen Pink'
transluscent pink flowers
MAGNOLIA 'Lanarth Surprise'
pinkish-purple
Gift-wrapping available
MAGNOLIA 'Leda'
large pure white cup and saucer flower. Free flowering
Gift-wrapping available
MAGNOLIA 'Lemon Star'
(syn. Swedish Star) - a quite outstanding new magnolia which flowers from a very young age. The flowers emerge as greenish-yellow opening flat to a pure yellow before fading to cream. This will emerge as one of the most popular yellow magnolias in the next few years
MAGNOLIA 'Lili Diva'
pink, tulip-shaped
MAGNOLIA liliiflora 'Nigra'
flowers purplish-red
MAGNOLIA liliiflora 'Raven'
purple
MAGNOLIA 'Livingstone'
purple-pink tulip-shaped blooms fairly late in the season
Gift-wrapping available
MAGNOLIA x loebneri 'Leonard Messel'
soft pink star-like flowers
Gift-wrapping available
MAGNOLIA x loebneri 'Mag's Pirouette'
a seedling from Ballerina with lovely small flowers. The outer tepals are shorter than the inner ones
MAGNOLIA x loebneri 'Merrill'
large white fragrant flowers
MAGNOLIA x loebneri 'Powder Puff'
an outstanding form which lives up to its name with many tepals on each flower
MAGNOLIA x loebneri 'Raspberry Fun'
a tough x loebneri hybrid which is suitable for the smaller garden. A profusion of reddish-pink flowers
Gift-wrapping available
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