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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Sat, Feb 4, 12 at 10:40
| i really cant handle another 8 to 12 weeks before i see my magnolia ... the beauty of z5 ... lol ... as i dont know this particular mag .... is that pic color true ... it looks more red than purple ... ken |
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| M. x soulangiana? If so, there can be quite a variance in bloom color among seedlings. Neighbor down the street has one 20'+ that has a lot more white on the inside of the petal. Blooms so early that half of the time frost gets it, but definitely worth it in mild springs. Excellent picture! hortster |
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| VERY NICE!!! Ken, it's looking like spring is to be early this year. So hang in there. We are a full month early in my area. Buds of some Red Maples are swelling. Arktrees |
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| The picture is true. It is a Magnolia (Manglietia) insignis individual of particular purple flowers. |
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| Stiffly foliated and sparse magnolia for mild climates, producing a scattering of small flowers with no mass display. Floral odor can be seen as more medicinal that aromatic. Big deal is made out of this form because it produces partly red-flushed or stippled tepals instead of the entirely white ones normal for the species, but as you can see in the above close-up a solidly deep red flower is not produced, despite the hype. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Sat, Feb 4, 12 at 13:00
| the problem up here in MI.. is the potential for deep hard frost/freeze thru about 6/1 .. so its doesnt matter how early spring pushes bud and bloom .... but whether the bud will be destroyed before it can mature and open ... on thing for sure.. with 25 years of experience watching my saucer mag ... the flowers open.. 90% of the time.. on the first good wind storm of summer ... i dont know how they know its coming.. but it never fails .... its a very long wait.. for a very short show ... and then the other 10% of the time.. they get heavy frost/froze.. and dont bloom at all .... and then there was the year my 10 footer died to snow cover .... [i guess that wasnt a z5 winter] i only do the saucer.. and the star mag's ... as the others are just not reliable enough in my little z5 MI .... [thank God the usda says i am in z6 now.. because now my total life experience with my mags .. will be irrelevant.. since these things dont happen in z6 .. rotflmbo] as to the pic.. i bet at dusk.. just as the sky fades to pink.. that darn flower is surely purple... [or dawn.. but i am never looking at flowers at dawn] ken |
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| Ken, is burgundy a better color to describe it? |
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| bboy, did you feel the earth quake today? Anyways, the burgundy color is still different. The Magnolia insignis tree below is from the botanical garden of Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University. The one below is of a more common color. The flower is slightly larger than tulip poplar.
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| Completely understand Ken. Do to the micro-climate of being in a river valley, replace 6/1 with 5/1, and I have much the same issue. It's bad enough I don't even try to have the deciduous Magnolia, and I don't believe I have seen any in my immediate vicinity (includes a couple thousand people) that shares the micro-climate. Still, other tougher plants will likely be early, and at least you will have something to cheer you up. Arktrees |
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closer to what i see as a purple magnolia (in my next door neighbor's yard).   |
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| Yes, second picture repeats same appearance shown in first. More pictures from unattributed sources of Chinese plants not of general usefulness to cold climate gardeners presented as God's Gift by a poster who tends to immediately take an offensive tone when the limitations of their subjects and approach is pointed out. |
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| bboy, I don't know if Jeff_al is Chinese. I never asked. Jeff, are you Chinese? Secondly, these plants are located in China today. However, these have evolved and set up millions of years before Homo Sapiens ever arrived in the place. In another word, these plants have nothing to do with the nation China at all. bboy, you should not associate these plants with nationality. It is not scientific. |
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| More silliness. |
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