|
Jan 2022
7:38pm, 26 Jan 2022
35,119 posts
|
LazyDaisy
Could be, it has been exceptionally dry here. I can't remember the last time I had to run in the rain 
|
|
Mar 2022
7:30pm, 19 Mar 2022
35,432 posts
|
LazyDaisy
Thought you might enjoy the fabulous display of magnolia flowers on my walk from home to pick up the car this morning
|
|
Mar 2022
7:32pm, 19 Mar 2022
35,433 posts
|
LazyDaisy
|
|
Mar 2022
7:32pm, 19 Mar 2022
33,227 posts
|
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
Stunning!
|
|
Mar 2022
7:59pm, 19 Mar 2022
87,291 posts
|
Hanneke
Lovely walk this afternoon, to find daffodils, wild ones...
Those anemones stood out.
|
|
Mar 2022
6:30am, 21 Mar 2022
17,764 posts
|
3M (aka MarkyMarkMark)
This one is in my Mum's garden on the IoW.
Not much else growing in it!
|
|
Mar 2022
8:43am, 21 Mar 2022
87,357 posts
|
Hanneke
But: WOW!
I planted 4 magnolias.
Lost one, a stellata, to frost.
I now have 3...
One "normal" one, one dark pink normal/stellata cross and I bought a hibrid experiment from the head gardener at Hergest Croft last year. No idea what it is going to look like. It is really small still and slow growing...
The other two have flowered and are in bud now... Growing 10 cms each year, they are definitely exercises in patience!
At a client, there is a MASSIVE one that used to be a shrub once... And by massive I mean the multi-stems are about 30 cms DIAMETER...
|
|
Mar 2022
8:44am, 21 Mar 2022
87,358 posts
|
Hanneke
Oh and... I LOVE magnolias... Hard to restrain myself and stick to 3, especially as they start off so small and take so long before they take off...
|
|
Mar 2022
8:49am, 21 Mar 2022
87,359 posts
|
Hanneke
I just ordered 3 Rhododendron Luteum, previously Azalea Ponticum. The deciduous one with the yellow flowers on bare wood in May: highly scented!
The also grow very very slowly. It will take 5 years or so before I see a flower... Quite hard to visualise what my "food forest" will look like in 5 years time! It was started in 2014 with a walnut tree and a handful of shrubs all bought as whips. The walnut is also slow growing: bought as a small tree for a small fortune. Last year it flowered for the first time. 2 nuts formed: the squirrels had them green.
I reckon it will be another 7 years before there will be a meaningful crop for me.
But, as your mum's and those other magnolias show: it is well wort the effort of nurturing these special trees!
|
|
Mar 2022
9:07am, 21 Mar 2022
17,767 posts
|
3M (aka MarkyMarkMark)
That magnolia in my mum's garden is about 50 years old - I remember her planting the very small shrub it was - slightly smaller than me at the time!
Over the years it's had branches chopped off because they were in the way, sometime deliberately pruned to try and keep a nice shape etc., but it always come back and gives great joy for about 3 weeks in Spring!
But she used to hate it when the petals, and in Autumn, the leaves, dropped off because they were such a time consuming chore to collect. (Having replaced the small patch of lawn with gravel backfired when she realised the dead material didn't get taken down by worms any more!). The garden has now mostly moved into the care (and I use the word loosely!) of my sister and the occasional blitzing by me if I visit for more than a day or two, so the gravel is in danger of getting lost under the degrading mulch of last year's vegetation.
|
