Knowing what the expected outcomes are and solving problems when you find them should happen at any age. I was inspecting a house in Eureka Springs this week and saw this cluster on a tree that I never noticed before.
I was told it was a magnolia tree, but it didn't have the glossy leaves. What are your thoughts? I think it is a slightly deformed seed pod on a Magnolia soulangiana--the tulip or saucer magnolia.
It should have light pink to purple flowers in the spring before the foliage. All links to external sites open in a new window. I planted two magnolias, Daybreak bright pink and Lois yellow two years ago, and both bloomed for the first time this spring. Your Galaxy reminds me of Daybreak. I hope my Daybreak is as pretty as your Galaxy when it grows up. Deborah, your description of the Saucer Magnolia is wonderful! How can one Not be engaged in its beauty and the beauty of Spring?
I love it! Thank you for educating me to take more time to notice the beauty around us:. Thanks for this! I love the glossy dark green leaves when they are done blooming! What a performance from the grand old girl! I never minded the daily sweeping up which began almost the moment after the tree was in full bloom.
I carefully put the sweepings under the tree, to create a carpet of acidity the tree enjoyed. But a good year made the anxious waiting more than worth it, Thanks for writing about a shared favorite.
Ahhh Deborah, we sing in unison the praises of the saucer magnolia! I have planted one at every house I have owned. Although glorious in every season, their winter interest is especially endearing……their smooth bark. Hard to imagine a lovelier sight. I love your description of pink petals against green grass — just as beautiful. Instead of a bouquet of flowers, my husband gave me a saucer magnolia when our daughter was born 37 years ago. Until last year, it struggled a tad being under a large oak tree.
Oak has since been cut. My brother clued me in to the fact that our saucer magnolia was in bloom when Google Earth photos were taken of our neighborhood. Sure enough, amidst a sea of slate roofs there is our magnolia, a gigantic pink powderpuff for all to enjoy! It was only a few years old when we bought this house 33 years ago. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.
Email Address. Detroit Garden Works Branch Studio. Deborah Silver is a landscape and garden designer whose firm, Deborah Silver and Co Inc, opened its doors in She opened Detroit Garden Works, a retail store devoted to fine and unusual garden ornament and specialty plants, in In , she opened the Branch studio, a subsidiary of the landscape company which designs and manufactures garden ornament in a variety of media.
Though her formal education is in English literature and biology, she worked as a fine artist in watercolor and pastel from Her three companies provide a wide range of products and services to the serious gardener.
She has been writing this journal style blog since April of The Saucer Magnolia The saucer magnolias are in outrageously heavy bloom everywhere I go, and everywhere I look. Galaxy magnolia in bloom overhead Hello spring. The leaf is elliptic to obovate and is 8 inches long, 4.
They are usually around 10 inches across with nine white-pink to deep pink-purple petals. Saucer magnolia blooms in late winter to early spring, often before the leaves, producing large, white flowers shaded in pink. Saucer magnolia also produces a fruit similar to the other magnolias. It is an elongated fruit cluster that ripens from green to pink to about 4 inches. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content.
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