Plant a magnolia for spectacular bud, bloom and foliage interest all the year round, says Anne Swithinbank.
THE decision to plant a magnolia is easy to make because they’re so beautiful. But narrowing the choice to one is much trickier.
Back when I started gardening, options were limited and unless you had access to a wooded Cornish valley, most of us never ventured beyond shrubbier Magnolia stellata for smaller gardens, M. x soulangiana for their goblet-shaped blooms, and evergreen M. grandiflora for the sheltered walls of stately homes.
This story is from the December 23 - 30,2017 edition of Amateur Gardening.
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