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 It's a bit pale but looks okay |
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- Posted by Springpatch77 5b/6a (cuja1@yahoo.com) on Thu, May 24, 12 at 0:14
| What kind is it? I planted an Edith Bogue and a Brackens Brown Beauty in 2011. I was worried all winter about it and then it turned out we had a zone 7b winter here and it didn't even defoliate. Your's should be easy to protect for awhile. |
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- Posted by Dzitmoidonc 6 (My Page) on Fri, May 25, 12 at 14:48
| Mine looked like that about 20 years ago. We are in SCen PA and it has grown to be way over 20ft., maybe over 30ft. A small tree like that will probably defoliate the first couple of real winters we get, but not to worry. If it makes several leaders, as they want to do in cold climates, once the tree gets over your head, it should have been pruned to one leader. In other words, you can grow it like a bush for the first few years, but then each year should see the removal of one of the trunks. Mine made 5, and sorry to say it still has 2. To take the second one away now would make the tree look stupid, to say nothing of what dear wife would think. The flowers on mine are great, the only complaint is that the tree draws a flock of Eastern Bluebirds in the fall. For several nights before migration, the birds roost in the tree and make 'white streaks' on many of the leaves. Like 100s of the leaves. Rain washes their evidence away, but it makes the tree unsightly until that happens. |
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| The first one I planted, some years ago, I planted too close to the house. I thought it needed the extra heat of the house and never thought it would start growing so robustly in NJ. That tree was eventually taken down. My heart sank and to make up for my mistake, I planted many, many more, only a safe distance from the house. I use them as screening now from the neighbor, and have planted many different cultivars--Edith Bogue (a NJ native), the gorgeous 'Victoria', Majestic Beauty', 'Brackes Brown', Teddy Bear', 'Green Giant', and Litte Gems (which have a ridiculously long season of bloom--into late Mid/late October. Peoples' jaws drop when they see and smell a flower 9 inches in diameter! |
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| I have 2 of them, they're the same size. It is Magnolia Grandiflora or in other words plain southern mag. I want to get a Brackens brown beauty after seeing them in Florida. They seem to be pretty narrow so I can put it where I don't have to worry about it getting too wide. I will try to keep ahead of many leaders. We had a zone 7 winter here too and have for many years, unless I missed a colder night 4 or 5 years ago, before I obbsessed about temps in winter. I'm glad to hear that it has done well enough too get big in zone 5 &6 . Thanks for the feedback everyone. |
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