Magnolia

A small shrubby plant that blooms profusely from an early age, 'Kikuzaki' has 2” light pink flowers with 20-30 tepals. its one of the first Magnolias to bloom and a favorite here.

Probably the hardiest cultivar of this long cultivated species, nigra dates back to Vietch in 1861, flowers are very dark on small trees to 15’, while a bit tender flowers are produced rather late and often miss the hard frosts. With careful placement, it’s growable here although not as hardy as the soulangiana (liliflora x denudata) hybrids.

Exotic and tropical looking with leaves that rival macrophylla, flowers are white and up to 10” across followed by ornamental seed heads on trees to 50’; despite the name tripetala has six or more tepals, the name refers the three outer reflexed ones); seedlings from the spectacular specimen in Punnett’s garden.

Another from the girl series, flowers deep purple red outside, white inside; plants are rather large reaching 10-15’.

The late Phil Savage (Phil died from West Nile complications) crossed magnolia acuminata ‘Miss honeybee x magnolia stellata ‘Rubra’ to produced this wonderful plant, its fast growing, as much as 2’ per year, with the habit of an open growing stellata. The 4” yellow star like flowers appear before the leaves, which unfurl bronze red, and change to green as they mature.