Hearing the delightful history in your soothing voice was so nice. I have always wanted a magnolia tree, and got so happy when I heard the word, ‘shrub’, thinking I can plant it in a pot (since I’m currently renting), but I’m not sure? I have many plants in pots and two small apple trees and they all seem to be doing well. Do you have any advice you could spare? Thank you. 🤗
I find it crazy that they're such an ancient species. I had no idea. Even more fascinating that their closest living relative is the buttercup! You almost can't believe it! I have a magnolia tree (magnolia soulangeana) I bought via an auction. I have nowhere to put it though! lol
Nice, thank you. We have a white Stellata, about 4 1/2 feet tall, which normally blooms prolifically but this year for some reason not so much. We love our M. Niger, also 4 1/2 feet tall and becoming quite broad; a M. 'Vulcan', which we have to protect with shade cloth in our hot summers, and which, after 4 years or so, has not blossomed yet, but we expect it will this year because it is looking very robust; and M. 'Little Gem', which is a smallish tree rather like those huge ones in our area and in the deep south. It blooms nicely with its white bold flowers. Thank you for your history!
Just dropping in again to suggest something. I know you are passionate about plants (especially roses?). I write and edit wikipedia articles for plant species in my free time. It's a fun hobby and I love helping to spread knowledge with the rest of the world. If you have the passion for it, it'd be cool if you joined me. I was on David Austins wikipedia page earlier and realized that a majority of his rose cultivars don't have pages yet. Wikipedia is really in need of someone familiar with his roses to write those articles. If you fancy helping us wikipedia plant nerds out that'd be cool.
This was an interesting brief history of magnolias, I have a cultivar of magnolia grandiflora which is a very big flowered evergreen species from the southern US, hopefully it will flower this year. I got it after looking up youtube videos of 'magnolia grandiflora and bees', there are quite a few videos on youtube with the bees (mostly honeybees in the videos) go crazy for the flowers and the stamens that eventually separate from them.
