{"id":2876,"date":"2012-06-01T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2012-02-13T18:06:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T23:06:29","slug":"dwarf-southern-magnolia-cultivars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2012\/06\/01\/dwarf-southern-magnolia-cultivars\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwarf Southern Magnolia Cultivars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Small Tepal Flower of 'Little Gem' Magnolia<\/p><\/div>\n

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Small 5-6 Year Old ‘Little Gem’ Magnolia<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora<\/em>) is remarkably hardy in USDA zone 6. This evergreen magnolia prefers a moist well-drained, slightly acidic soil, and planted in a partial to full sun location.\u00a0 It is a long-lived large 70-80 feet tall tree, best suited to large commercial and residential properties, golf courses and public parks.<\/p>\n

Four dwarf cultivars are available at garden centers:<\/p>\n

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  • \u2018Little Gem\u2019 and \u2018Hasse\u2019 (35-40 feet in height)<\/li>\n
  • Teddy Bear\u00ae and \u2018Kay Parris\u2019 (25-30 feet in height)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Little Gem is most popular and grows very shrub-like. Little Gem\u00a0may encompass 20 or more feet of ground area. Hasse exhibits a tree-like\u00a0habit and branching is primarily upright. Teddy Bear and Kay Parris grow slowly and are better selections for small landscapes.<\/p>\n

    Regarding\u00a0the dwarf cultivars, the leaves and flowers are proportionally smaller that the species. The glossy foliage is thick and leathery, and dark green\u00a0over\u00a0both\u00a0the upper and lower surfaces. Kay Parris foliage is reddish brown on the underside.<\/p>\n

    Goblet shaped flowers open intermittently from late spring through summer and are very fragrant. On trees ten years and older, one to several blooms open almost every day from May until late September. Ornate cone-like seed pods form after\u00a0flower have shed their creamy white tepals (petals).<\/p>\n

    Pruning is rarely needed unless you desire to limb up the lower branches (for mowing under and such). Evergreen leaves drop through most of the year, most noticeable in late winter and early spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Small 5-6 Year Old ‘Little Gem’ Magnolia Southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) is remarkably hardy in USDA zone 6. This evergreen magnolia prefers a moist well-drained, slightly acidic soil, and planted in a partial to full sun location.\u00a0 It is a long-lived large 70-80 feet tall tree, best suited to large commercial and residential properties, golf […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,657,749,674,806,800,774,865,866,627,630,705,706,646],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876"}],"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=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2959,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions\/2959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}