I want a Magnolia Tree!

[ducks4you]

Too bad, but the summer flowers rotted off because of the enormous July rain we've had.
Otherwise it's looking great! It's gonna be on of those magnolias that has several limbs coming almost out of the ground, instead of a single stem and limbs.

 

[Nyboy]

My grandparents very very frugal. They had a large family to feed. On a small city lot they grew a number of fruit trees. One Mothers Day my aunts all chipped in a bought their mother a magnolia tree. My grandfather had a fit they where not wasting space on a tree that produced nothing useful. My grandmother who always submitted to her husband put up such a fight the tree was planted. Years later after they where both gone and I was a little kid the Magnolia was the holy tree. Us kids where not allowed to touch it much less clime it. It died after 60 years. Where ever I live I always plant a magnolia tree for childhood memories .

 

[coco25]

I've never seen a magnolia tree with purple flowers, that is really pretty! Don't know what the "name". Of mine is, but I love it & it's HUGE! It does make a mess in the yard too!

 

[ducks4you]

That is so sweet! I wanted one because my next door neighbors (3 acres north of us, on the other side of our horse's pasture) had/have a mature, normal height (35 ft) magnolia, so I knew that it could survive here. MINE (a dwarf to be 10-15 ft tall) is on the east side of my house, so it is spared the worst winter winds, but Theirs has no such protection. Btw, there is another blossom. Maybe it will dry out enough to flower this summer. Doesn't matter. It had over 40 blossoms this last spring and should have many more next spring.

 

[Nyboy]

When I lived in Westport I had to put my 19 year old cat to sleep. I wanted a magnolia to mark his grave, I went to local nursery where they had 1 in stock. I could not believe that spring when it flowered they where yellow!! I did not know they came in that color.

 

[ducks4you]

That is really cool! I'm not surprised because when you look at the Magnolia this and Magnolia that places in the south, the flower that they depict is whitish/yellowish with a pink center.
Like This:
http://www.magnoliasociety.org/resources/Pictures/images/cultivars/msieboldi8422.JPG
http://medias.photodeck.com/848358de-80f9-11e0-9bb9-35187956e5f5/28-22 mag cb 08284_xlarge.jpg
Did they look like these?
https://www.google.com/search?q=yel...za6qLOAhVh9YMKHZwVC9wQsAQISw&biw=1366&bih=657

 

[Nyboy]

They where yellow like in your last link

 

[Smart Red]

There is a Stellar Magnolia series that are hardier and more suitable for the North. They come in yellow and in white, possibly in pink as well.

 

[journey11]

Well...son of a gun. My Magnolia tree has three flowers on it...in July! ...go figure...

Mine has been sending out a few more blooms too. Have had it 3 years. First time it has done that. Usually blooms early spring.

 

[Nyboy]

Red funny growing up with one in NY I never thought of them as a warm zone tree.