My very first Magnolia :)

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Evert Helsinki, Finland(Zone 4b) Jul 03, 2002

We bought it from Zetas Trädgård, Huddinge, Sweden... 255 SEK (28 €) :/

Me very happy now :D

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philomel Castelnau RB Pyrenée, France(Zone 8a) Jul 04, 2002

Which magnolia have you got there Evert?

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Evert Helsinki, Finland(Zone 4b) Jul 04, 2002

Magnolia hypoleuca

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lupinelover Grove City, OH(Zone 6a) Jul 05, 2002

Wow, what a green picture! Great photo too, but so green! Getting dry here, so most things are turning beige :( Almost forgetting how green it was just 7 weeks ago :*

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Evert Helsinki, Finland(Zone 4b) Jul 05, 2002

Finland is always green in the summer.. :)

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philomel Castelnau RB Pyrenée, France(Zone 8a) Jul 05, 2002

Don't know that one Evert. It's one that likes acid conditions, and i garden on chalk. Sounds lovely though - large fragrant flowers in June. I always think it's such a shame that the magnolias most people grow around here flower in the spring and the flowers are so often spoilt by the frost. Nothing worse than a tree covered in brown mush instead of serene beauty.

What age is this one before it flowers?

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Evert Helsinki, Finland(Zone 4b) Jul 05, 2002

The frost is problem here too, but usually they bloom a little later here. M. sieboldii, Magnolia kobus (& var. borealis) and loebneri -hybrids are the most grown here, as they are the hardest. Magnolia hypoleuca is such a new species here, and I think not many Finn has got it. I think this has to still grow some years before it blooms. M. hypoleuca is a species that isn't full of blooms I think, it also blooms when it has leaves already, so frost isn't so big prolem then I think.

Found a funny site, go to http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/cgi-bin/arr_html?Magnolia+hypoleuca and read edible uses.. :) Would you pick your magnolia buds, boil them and eat? =)
Hardy to about -20 C sounds bad :/ The origin of this plant is Botanical garden of Göteborg, in Sweden, and they have a pretty hardy stock of hypoleuca what I heard from my Finnish tree expert friend :)

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