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by Trevor Cole
photos by Tracy Cox |
Magical
Magnolias (part
4) |
Another
group of popular magnolias is M. x loebneri, introduced in the
early 1900s in Germany. Two later selections from this cross
are especially well known: ‘Leonard Messel’, the
blooms of which have 12 petals flushed with pink on the outside
and whitish pink with a central purplish line on the inside
and ‘Merrill’, which is exceptionally free-flowering,
with 15-petalled, white blooms. Both are hardy to Zone 5. ‘Ballerina’
has pale pink blooms with up to 30 petals. It’s slightly
hardier than the other two but may not be as readily available.
Three other species magnolias
are solid choices for Canadian gardens: the Yulan (M. denudata,
Zone 5b) is a large, rounded shrub or small tree that grows
nine metres tall and has fragrant, white, cup-shaped flowers
15 centimetres across. It tends to bloom very early; if planted
in an exposed location, its nine-petalled flowers may be damaged
by a late frost. Kobus (Zone 5) becomes a large shrub up to
12 metres tall with fragrant, white flowers. This species doesn’t
bloom while young—a plant in my garden started from seed
about 20 years ago has only just started to flower. Bull bay,
also known as southern magnolia (M. grandiflora, Zone 7), is
evergreen and flowers in late spring with occasional blooms
throughout summer and fall. This large tree reaches 24 metres
tall and spreads 15 metres across. Its dark green foliage often
has rust-coloured fuzz on the underside. ‘Little Gem’
is better suited to average-sized gardens—it grows only
six metres tall and three metres across. |
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Brentwood
Bay Nurseries: 3, 4, 6, 12, 13, 15, 17-20, 22, 23,
26, 29, 30.
Centre
du Jardin Deux-Montagnes Inc.: 3, 12, 26, 30.
Connon
Nurseries: 1, 2, 7-10, 12, 22, 23, 26, 28-30.
Corn
Hill Nursery Ltd.: 26.
Degroot’s
Nurseries: 3, 12, 13, 21, 26.
Fragrant Flora: 1-4, 8, 9, 22-24, 26, 30.
Fraser’s
Thimble Farms: 12, 16, 20, 27.
Garden
of Eden Tree Farm: 16.
Golden
Bough Tree Farm: 23.
Golden
Eagle Tree Farm: 17, 18, 29.
GardenWorks:
5, 13, 22, 26.
Hortico
Inc.: 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 17, 20, 26, 30.
Humber
Nurseries Ltd. & Butterfly Conservatory: 2, 4,
9, 10, 12, 13, 16, 20, 22, 25, 26, 29, 30.
Mason
Hogue Gardens: 10, 12.
Mori Gardens: 1, 2, 4, 7, 12, 13, 26, 30.
Richmond Nursery Ltd.: 2, 12, 13, 23, 26, 28.
Sheridan
Nurseries Ltd.: 13, 26, 29.
Veseys
Seeds Ltd.: 23.
Vineland
Nurseries: 1-4, 6, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 22, 26, 29,
30.
Woodland
Nurseries: 22, 26, 29, 30. |
| 'Leonard
Messel' |
| SOURCES |
KEY:
Magnolia ‘Ann’: 1, ‘Betty’: 2,
‘Butterflies’: 3, ‘Elizabeth’:
4, ‘Golden Endeavor’: 5, ‘Gold Star’:
6, ‘Jane’: 7, ‘Pinkie’: 8, ‘Randy’:
9, ‘Ricki’: 10, ‘Sundance’: 11,
‘Susan’: 12, ‘Yellow Bird’: 13,
‘Yellow Fever’: 14, ‘Yellow Lantern’:
15, M. acuminata: 16, M. denudata: 17, M. grandiflora:
18, M. g. ‘Little Gem’: 19, M. kobus: 20,
M. liliiflora: 21, M. x soulangeana: 22, M. stellata:
23, M. s. ‘King Rose’: 24, M. s. ‘Pink
Star’: 25, M. s. ‘Royal Star’: 26, M.
s. ‘Waterlily’: 27, M. x loebneri ‘Ballerina’:
28, M. x l. ‘Leonard Messel’: 29, M. x l.
‘Merrill’: 30.
Art’s
Nursery Ltd. : 2, 10, 12, 13, 17, 21, 26, 29.
B.
Dinter Nursery Ltd.: 3, 4, 12, 13, 18, 20, 22, 23,
25, 26, 30.
Botanix
Azilda Greenhouses: 12, 13, 26 |
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