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    MAGNOLIA
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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.

     

    Full Plant Details - Sun/Soil & other attributes - Click to close
    • Pests & Diseases
      Scale insects, honey fungus, coral spot.
    • Place of origin
      Raised at Washington Arboretum, Seattle, USA, from seeds from Japan.
    • Magnolias - larger gardens
    • Magnolia
    • Deciduous
      Narrow, dark-green leaves to 18cm (7in) long. Leaves are bronze tinted when young.
    • White
    • Cup-shaped
      Open cup-shaped to 15cm (6in) across with 6 large tepals.
    • Fully hardy
    • Entire
    • Ovate
    • Height
      9m (30ft)
    • Spread
      7m (23ft)
    • Tree
    • Hardy - very cold winter
      Hardy in all of UK and northern Europe. Plant can possibly withstand temperatures down to -20°C (-4°F)
    • Scented flowers
    • Fertile moist well-drained soil
      Humus-rich
    • Neutral to acid soil
    • Full sun
      Shelter from strong winds.
    • Partial shade
    • Broadly conical
    • Rounded to broadly spreading
    • Mature Size
      9m (30ft)
      		 tree - guide for size not form Average Person
        7m (23ft)
      		  
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    Available from £20.00
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    Varieties

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    • MAGNOLIA 'Betty'
    Petals purplish-red, white inside, suitable for smaller gardens
     
    Small
    £17.50
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    Medium
    £70.00
    MAGNOLIA 'Big Dude'
    Huge flowers which are reddish-purple outside and white inside fading rose-pink and white
     
    Medium
    £70.00
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    Large
    £80.00
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    MAGNOLIA biondii
    Small fragrant white flowers flushed purple at the base
     
    Medium
    £70.00
    Large
    £80.00
    MAGNOLIA 'Blackberry Rose'
    (syn 'Brombeer') - reddish-purple
     
    Specimen
    £110.00
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    MAGNOLIA 'Black Swan'
    Dark red flowers
     
    Large
    £80.00
    MAGNOLIA 'Black Tulip'
    The darkest purple-red flowered magnolia before the arrival of M.'Genie'
     
    Medium
    £70.00
    Large
    £80.00
    Specimen
    £110.00
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    MAGNOLIA 'Blushing Belle'
    Pink cup-and-saucer flowers, paler pink within.
     
    Medium
    £70.00
    MAGNOLIA 'Brixton Belle'
    Campbellii type - this excellent hybrid flowers at a very young age. Large cup and saucer blooms, rich pink outside, and paler within
     
    Medium
    £70.00
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    MAGNOLIA x brooklynensis 'Black Beauty'
    Probably the nearest to a black magnolia flower that you will ever see. Quite extraordinary. Slow growing but very floriferous
     
    Large
    £80.00
    MAGNOLIA x brooklynensis 'Hattie Carthan'
    Bright yellow flowers with magenta mid veins and a tinge of green
     
    Large
    £80.00
    MAGNOLIA x brooklynensis 'Titan'
    Pale pink and cream
     
    Medium
    £70.00
    Large
    £80.00
    MAGNOLIA x brooklynensis 'Woodsman'
    Flowers are an unusual combination of yellow, green and purple
     
    Large
    £80.00
    MAGNOLIA x brooklynensis 'Yellow Bird'
    Introduced at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens in 1967 as a hybrid between M. acuminata and M. x brooklynensis. Flowers are yellow with a slight greenish tinge
     
    Medium
    £70.00
    Specimen
    £110.00
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    MAGNOLIA 'Burgundy Spire'
    Narrow habit. Burgundy, upright flowers, cream within.
     
    Large
    £80.00
    MAGNOLIA 'Burgundy Star'
    Perhaps the best new red flowered New Zealand hybrid yet. Upright tulip-shaped flowers opening to a star shape
     
    Medium
    £70.00
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