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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
- Details
- Mature Size
- Tips and Advice
- Goes Well With
- Planting Combinations
- Other Suggestions
- See Also...
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Deciduous - narrow, oval, dark-green leaves to 18cm (7in) long. Leaves are bronze tinted when young.
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White -
Height - 9m (30ft) -
Spread - 7m (23ft)
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Tree
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Hardy - very cold winter - Hardy in all of UK and northern Europe. Plant can possibly withstand temperatures down to -20°C (-4°F) -
Full sun - shelter from strong winds. -
Partial shade -
Additional Features - Pests & Diseases - - scale insects, honey fungus, coral spot. -
Place of origin - raised at Washington Arboretum, Seattle, USA, from seeds from Japan. -
Flower Shape - Cup-shaped - - open cup-shaped to 15cm (6in) across with 6 large tepals.
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Hardiness - Fully hardy -
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Scented Plants - Scented flowers -
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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 conical -
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Rounded to broadly spreading
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
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9m (30ft)
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7m (23ft) |
Buy Varieties of MAGNOLIA
MAGNOLIA salicifolia >
Commonly known as: Willow-leaved magnolia.
Leaves and bark are lemon-scented. Smallish white flowers in April
MAGNOLIA 'Sayonara' >
Profuse white goblet-shaped flowers slightly pink and flushed green at the base
MAGNOLIA 'Serene' >
A strangely underrated Jury hybrid with large bowl-shaped bright purplish pink flowers. One of the last tree magnolias to flower each spring
MAGNOLIA 'Shirazz' >
A new introduction with spectacular large rich burgundy-red tulip shaped blooms which open out flat
MAGNOLIA sieboldii 'Pride of Norway' >
Semi-pendulous flowers with vivid purple centres. Perhaps not quite colossal but certainly very large and plentiful flowers
MAGNOLIA 'Sir Harold Hillier' >
A beautiful hybrid with huge pure white flowers. The original tree grows at Chyverton Gardens in Cornwall
MAGNOLIA x soulangeana 'Alexandrina' >
Commonly known as: Tulip magnolia.
White flowers with a purple flush at the base. Upright growing and free flowering
MAGNOLIA x soulangeana 'Picture' >
Commonly known as: Tulip magnolia.
Long erect flowers which are purple outside and white inside
MAGNOLIA x soulangeana 'Red Lucky' >
Commonly known as: Tulip magnolia.
(cv 'Rubriflora') - a cultivar from Hong Yun, China, with reddish buds which fade as the very fragrant flowers develop. Flowers can appear 3 times a year in March, June and August. Rapid growth rate
MAGNOLIA x soulangeana 'Rustica Rubra' >
Commonly known as: Tulip magnolia.
Rich rosy-red cup-shaped flowers
MAGNOLIA x soulangeana 'Satisfaction' >
Commonly known as: Tulip magnolia.
Exceptionally large fragrant red-pink flowers in April and May. Petals are red-pink outside and white inside
MAGNOLIA 'Spectrum' >
Exceptional dark rosy purple blooms on this hybrid between sprengeri 'Diva' and liliiflora 'Nigra'
MAGNOLIA sprengeri 'Diva' >
Grafts from the original plant at Caerhays which is now dead. Flowers are rosy-pink outside and pale pink inside, and have a distinct erect habit. 'Diva' is italian for 'goddess'
MAGNOLIA sprengeri 'Diva' 'Burncoose' >
A deep glowing rose-purple form raised at Burncoose by the late head gardener, Mr Arnold Dance
MAGNOLIA sprengeri 'Eric Savill' >
Rich pink cup shaped flowers on a small tree. The inside of the flowers are almost white. This was a seedling of M. sprengeri 'Diva' at the Savill Gardens.
MAGNOLIA sprengeri 'Lanhydrock' >
With us this flowers much later in the season than other sprengeri forms. It also has deeper pink flowers than other forms but clearly a sprengeri shape
MAGNOLIA 'Spring Rite' >
Very fragrant, large pure white flowers with a hint of pink at the base. Fast growing
MAGNOLIA 'Star Wars' >
Free-flowering form with star-shaped bright pink flowers. One of the most popular of the new crop of New Zealand hybrids which grows quickly and flowers at a young age
MAGNOLIA 'Stellar Acclaim' >
Flowers are greenish in bud opening a deepish yellow but still with some green. When we first saw this new variety in flower it was not impressive but, now that the plant is 8-10 feet tall and full of flower it is certainly quite a show if only because it flowers so late in the season
MAGNOLIA stellata 'Jane Platt' >
Commonly known as: Star magnolia.
Profuse deep pink flowers fading after opening
