{"id":188,"date":"2010-06-13T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/06\/13\/smaller-southern-magnolias\/"},"modified":"2010-06-13T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T01:56:00","slug":"smaller-southern-magnolias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/06\/13\/smaller-southern-magnolias\/","title":{"rendered":"Smaller Southern Magnolias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/TBWXV7SidwI\/AAAAAAAAAP4\/eKZZcaLOsW4\/s1600\/DSC09177.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482454524341942018\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/TBWXV7SidwI\/AAAAAAAAAP4\/eKZZcaLOsW4\/s320\/DSC09177.jpg\" \/><\/a> The grand Southern magnolia (<em>Magnolia grandiflora<\/em>) thrives here in the southern Appalachian region and along the Eastern seaboard as far north as Boston (USDA zones 6-9). Most homeowners do not have room enough to grow this 60-70 foot arboreal aristocrat.<\/p>\n<p>Compact forms are available that need less than half the space. The ivory white flowers are fragrant and 25% smaller than full sized trees. Blooms open individually, not all at once, from late May thru the summer months. The most popular compact cultivar is \u2018Little Gem\u2019. It grows to a height and width of 40 x 35 feet in 25-30 years. Others include \u2018Hasse\u2019 (45 x 20 feet) and Teddy Bear\u00ae (30? x 20 feet).<\/p>\n<p>The newest introduction is \u2018Kay Parris\u2019 with exquisite polished green wavy leaves and mahogany brown beneath. The parents of \u2018Kay Parris\u2019 are &#8216;Little Gem\u2019 and &#8216;Bracken\u2019s Brown Beauty\u2019. As a young tree, &#8216;Kay Parris&#8217; exhibits an upright, narrow (columnar) form, rating it a great evergreen tree for a small garden space.<\/p>\n<p>Southern magnolia is planted from late winter through early fall in well-drained, organically amended soil in a full to partially (6 hours minimum) sunny area. Tree rarely has disease and insect issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grand Southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) thrives here in the southern Appalachian region and along the Eastern seaboard as far north as Boston (USDA zones 6-9). Most homeowners do not have room enough to grow this 60-70 foot arboreal aristocrat. Compact forms are available that need less than half the space. The ivory white flowers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[440],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}