This plant was a gift. I'm still as hokey as ever about gifts and the few I have received get preferential treatment over here. I received a gift box and I could tell that each plant sent to me had been lovingly labeled in pen on the outside of the ziplock baggies. Unfortunately as you can see in the photo below, the moisture in the box ruined the writing and I can't tell what exactly was sent to me. This looks an awful lot like a Magnolia. Possibly M. stellata?
I'd like to get this in the ground before we leave for the holiday but it would help to know exactly what it is if at all possible otherwise I'm going to site it as if it is a Magnolia stellata. Here's a close up of a leaf-
Could be one of the "Little Girls" which have some M. stellata in them, or M. x loebneri similarly.
Ann, Betty, Jane, Judy, Pinkie, Randy, Ricki, Susan?
Maybe do a pencil rubbing of the ZiplocŪ baggie...
Tell me how to do a pencil rubbing on a plastic baggie please?
omg....lol have you not been able to tell when he is joking yet??? Speaking of gifts...not, did you get the label that I sent-have been meaning to make sure that you got it.
I thought pencil rubbing was real, to get the impression initially made in the baggie by the pressing of the instrument that wrote it. Not sure if a marker would make that easy though. Its just rubbing a pencil's lead side-ways over the area of the writing to possibly see any writing that was pressed into the baggie.
Will
I think the plastic would have had to have been written on, on a hard surface, so there would have been an indentation-and that a pencil or pen-not a marker would have had to have been used.
I was partially just using this occasion to give Equil a hard time!! I don't get near the amt of chances that I should lol
OK, lemme go get the plastic baggie and try it. Looks as if she used a red pen. Maybe I'll be in luck. Be back.
OK, that was a bomb out. In looking at it in the very bright light I think I see the word Centennal? Any Magnolia cultivars out there going by the name of Centennal these days?
No plant tag yet Tigger. Mail doesn't come until late afternoon though.
Centennial
[M. stellata], cv. Large flowers (to 5 1/4 inches diameter) mostly white, but sometimes showing pink from its parent cv. rosea, raised at Weston, Massachusetts by the Arnold Arboretum and named in its centennial year, 1972. Offered in 1975-1976 price list of Gossler Farms Nursery, Springfield, Oregon.
shoot, then I screwed up the address-cause I mailed it oveer a week ago. It was really lightweight so I put 3 stamps on it with a note to my mailman to honk if it wasn't enough and I would run out there and put more stamps on. He never honked and took it, so I never thought about it again. He's really nice, so he would have honked ( i think!). Let me know when you get back if you got it, if not I'll try it again.
Ah, thank you Kevin. Mystery solved. I just did a peek on the Internet and by gosh by golly, I think I've got 'Centennial'. I couldn't be happier. What a beautiful plant. I know exactly where I want to put that.
Tigger, my mail lady won't send it back. She'll just wait to deliver it to me when she can catch me to get the extra postage. She's really good about that.
I'm going to sign you all up for Junior Detectives.
You did correctly identify the plant. Good job.
That will teach me for going to work. I missed the thread before it got solved.
And I will get a different pen.
Polly
I've been in and out all day digging holes. I've got fourteen 3-5 gallon holes to my credit for the day and it was hot and muggy out today from all the rain! Man I feel like a gopher. I'm going for the last push to get everything tucked away safely in the ground before we leave for the holiday. Let me tell you I am thrilled with these plants. That hardy Geranium is one I took photos of when I was at the ChiBo just recently and I wanted one of those so bad I could have just peed in my pants and then one magically appeared in my mother load box. Thank you for my 'Centennial' as well as everything else. I've been playing on and off all day trying to figure out exactly where I wanted some of them to go. This is fun! Things are starting to come together around here.
You're welcome, and it was fun for me too, let me tell you.
If you haven't planted the Magnolia yet, I was thinking I put two in the bag?
It's been pouring rain here, we only got a short break on Saturday, and there is so much I need to pot up, and the heat and humidity....So better you than me digging those holes.
Lemme go out and check (Happy Dance), I've got to go back out anyway. Be back.
There ARE two! Oh my gosh! Back out to dig another hole before it starts raining! I'm liking this digging holes deal today!
I'm home from my work-a-day shift. I forgot one crucial part of pencil rubbing I think, the part where you put paper over the "writing" and then rub. Oh well, glad to see you got it identified with some help and you like it. And what a bonus, there is two!
Will
No, Will, you forgot that EQ might have to disbud some of her #2s in order to HAVE a pencil to do the rubbing.
Well Will, I'd say that was a crucial omission. I'd take a photo of the baggie where I rubbed pencil but no point embarrassing myself any further at this point. V V, let's not rub anything else in... ok. You're just jealous that I've got two, not one, M. 'Centennial'. Eat your heart out big boy.
Have a good day gentlemen! Today will be another day for me of running in and out all day to get the rest of the plants in the ground before we leave. After that, I think I only have two last orders coming in for the year and one is carnivorous plants and the other is odds and ends from Heronswood. I felt the need to place one final order with them before they are no more.
