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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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Tall Shrub
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Additional Features - Good to know - - an ancient genus named after Pierre Magnol, French botanist, 1638-1715. Evolving before bees plants were pollinated by beetles. Grown for their showy, solitary, fragrant flowers. These can be cup-shaped, saucer-shaped, goblet-shaped or star-shaped and often appear before the leaves. Colours range from pure white to white with blushes or stains of pink or purple, rich pink and purple, and various shades of yellow. Cone-like fruit is produced in autumn on more mature specimens. -
Pests & Diseases - scale insects, honey fungus, coral spot. -
Place of origin - Himalayas, eastern and southeastern Asia, eastern North America to tropical North and South America -
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Soil Conditions - Fertile moist well-drained soil - - humus- rich.
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Neutral to acid soil
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Tree Shape - Broadly columnar -
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Broadly conical
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
- Soil Conditions
- Planting Locations
- Planting a magnolia - 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 'Caerhays Belle'
- Magnolia campbellii 'Alba' - 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'
- Magnolia 'Peachy' and 'Daybreak' 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
- Magnolia 'Tropicana' - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Michelia foveolata - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Michelia macclurei - 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
- Rhododendron seed collecting - Video Tip ondemand_video
Shrubs and Trees - Seeds - 2) Storing Seeds
Shrubs and Trees - Seeds - 3) Planting Seeds
Trees - Care Guide
- How to plant a tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- How to plant a tree
- Checking ties - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Restaking fallen young tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Fallen old tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Spring pruning - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing side shoots - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Deer protection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Weed Spraying - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing Ivy - 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
Buy Varieties of MAGNOLIA
MAGNOLIA 'Lois' >
Clear primrose flowers without a tendency to fade. Just as good in Burncoose Gardens as M. 'Daphne'
MAGNOLIA macrophylla >
Commonly known as: Great-leaved magnolia, Umbrella tree.
The largest leafed magnolia of all with greyish leaves, glaucous underneath and fragrant white flowers
MAGNOLIA macrophylla subsp. ashei >
A miniature form of M.macrophylla with smaller leaves which will flower at a very young age
MAGNOLIA 'March-till-Frost' >
As its name implies this magnolia continues to produce flowers irregularly right through the season. The first flowers are usually pale pink but the later ones are usually darker
MAGNOLIA 'Margaret Helen' >
Rose-red campbellii-type bowl-shaped blooms which appear freely at a young age. An exceptionally clear colour
MAGNOLIA 'Maxine Merrill' >
An acuminata x loebneri hybrid with bright yellow flowers usually before the leaf emerges. Flowers at a very young age
MAGNOLIA obovata >
Commonly known as: Japanese big-leaf magnolia.
(hypoleuca) - large obovate leaves and fragrant creamy-white flowers in May and June
MAGNOLIA officinalis >
Huge ovate leaves and saucer-shaped fragrant white flowers on this rarer species
MAGNOLIA officinalis var. biloba >
Very rare form with flowers flushed green and pink or red on the outside and white inside
MAGNOLIA 'Old Port' >
Our vote as the best new magnolia to flower in 2011. Wine-purple petals on the outside, white inside. Grows to about 12 feet in New Zealand
MAGNOLIA 'Peaches n'Cream' >
A cross between M. 'Yellow Bird' and M. 'Star Wars'. Cream coloured flowers with a bright purple base
MAGNOLIA 'Peachy' >
An unusual but striking hybrid between M. acuminata and M. sprengeri 'Diva'. Tepals are orange-red outside and creamy-white inside
MAGNOLIA 'Pegasus' >
A hybrid between M. cylindrica and M. denudata. White flowers with reflexed margins flushed with purple at the base.
MAGNOLIA 'Petit Chicon' >
Small light yellow flowers well before the leaves. Very floriferous. Grows as a broad shrub
MAGNOLIA 'Pickard's Schmetterling' >
Large slender, upright flowers which are creamy white but flushed reddish-purple at the base. Holds its flowers over a long period
MAGNOLIA 'Porcelain Dove' >
Spectacular hybrid between M. globosa and M. virginiana with attractive fragrant porcelain white flowers over a three month period
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 '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 'Red Lion' >
From the same cross that produced M. 'Star Wars'. Many feel the flower colour is better and the flowers are larger. Branches have a drooping habit
MAGNOLIA 'Royal Purple' >
A fastigiate habit with flowers which are deep purple outside and paler inside
