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| I was perusing a website selling many selections of various magnolia hybrids, some of which are not in my 6th edition Dirr manual, and a little more in depth knowledge would be appreciated with this particular tree. Anyone have experience with this one? It seems too good to be true. It sounds comparable to m. grandiflora "Little Gem" but a little larger is size with time.
Thanks! John |
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| No experience with this plant but one thing to look into is if it gives a nice INITIAL flush. Sometimes when you have these everblooming type plants they are very sporadic and only give you a few blooms at a time. It ends up leaving you dissappointed. I'm more likely to bite if advertised as multiple "flushes" vs sporadic blooming. |
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| Supposedly every new leaf bud produces a flower bud so as long as it is actively doing its stem elongation thing and growing, it will continue to flower.... Ah, here is the exact wording below 'This tetraploid plant starts to flower in spring and continues to flower without ceasing until frost. Flower buds are formed beside each leaf bud on the stems. ' and about the residual flowering flower color 'As its name implies this magnolia continues to produce irregular flowers right through the season. The first flowers are usually pale pink but the later ones are usually darker' |
Here is a link that might be useful: Link
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| Photo at link appears to show summer flower typical of other M. liliiflora hybrids such as saucer magnolia that may often produce these runty looking flowers here and there among the leaves after the full spring flush of fully expressed, normal flowers. If this introduction follows that pattern the summer and fall blooming will not produce the same effect as a southern magnolia, with its flowers always being the same size and shape throughout the entire cycle. |
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| Thanks bboy I bet you are right. Here is another link that seems to indicate once it begins to leaf out, the flower buds remain more closed. The leaves also look rather large and coarse in comparison to the soft flowers in these pics to me. |
Here is a link that might be useful: More pictures
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| Yes, those pictures really make it look like it's pretty much the same effect as a saucer magnolia (or various other lily magnolia hybrids) that produces abortive looking flowers among the leaves during summer. Possibly the thing with this one is that it has more of a tendency or a more consistent tendency to do this. Since the production of weird looking little flowers among the leaves is not really a plus feature - and is definitely not an unusual one - and the plant looks otherwise like a saucer magnolia - as well as any number of other lily magnolia hybrids - the naming and promoting of the plant begins to look hyperbolic or superfluous. I read lots of wholesale and other nursery plant descriptions, it is common to play up features of cultivars as special that are not really peculiar to them. |
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| Does anyone know if 'March Till Frost' has scented flowers? I have seen summer flowers of other varieties such as 'Jane' and still find them beautiful as well as the pics if this variety. I definitely value a long blooming season more than a spring show and will consider acquiring this variety if it has a scent like 'Jane' magnolia. |
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