{"id":8291,"date":"2016-02-18T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=8291"},"modified":"2015-11-07T13:58:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T18:58:14","slug":"little-girl-hybrid-magnolias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2016\/02\/18\/little-girl-hybrid-magnolias\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Girl Hybrid Magnolias"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Magnolia x ‘Ann’<\/p><\/div>\n

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Magnolia x ‘Susan’<\/p><\/div>\n

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Star (Magnolia stellata<\/em>) and tulip (M. soulangeana<\/em>) magnolias are early flowering magnolias. Early spring frosts destroy open flowers. In the mid-1980\u2019s the U.S. National Arboretum released 8 shrub-type cultivars as a series called the\u00a0\u201cLittle Girl Magnolias\u201d. They are hybrid crosses between M. liliiflora<\/em> and M. stellata. <\/em>Four cultivars- ‘Ann’, ‘Betty’, ‘Susan’, and ‘Jane’ – became the popular choices in the\u00a0series (USDA hardiness zones 4-8).<\/p>\n

These hybrid magnolias\u00a0turned out to be\u00a0great leaps forward in developing a late flowering\u00a0magnolias that\u00a0avoided frost injury. Each Little Girl cultivar blooms in early spring (some places in late spring).\u00a0Large goblet-shaped flowers\u00a0are comprised of 6 to 9 inches long strap-like tepals (petals and sepals) and are real eye-catchers. <\/u><\/p>\n

Flower colors vary by cultivar, in pink to purple shades: Ann (pinkish-red), Betty (reddish-purple), Jane (dark purple), Susan (purplish red). They often surprise with occasional blooms\u00a0in the summer\u00a0and early\u00a0fall. Plants are commonly multi-stemmed large shrubs, but can be trained as small trees. Over ten years<\/em> these deciduous shrubs will measure 10-\u00a015 feet height and spread.<\/p>\n

Little Girl magnolias grow in moist, well-drained soil,\u00a0preferably an\u00a0acidic pH, and in full to partial sun (4 –\u00a05 hours minimum sunlight). Roots will not tolerate soppy wet ground. Prune spring flowering magnolias soon after the spring flowering flush is over. Prune to remove basal suckers and to maintain the desired form of the shrub or tree magnolia.<\/p>\n

The deciduous leaves are thick and leathery and cope summer heat and drought. With proper care and in the right planting site, these hybrid magnolias are generally long-lived and disease and pest problems are rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Star (Magnolia stellata) and tulip (M. soulangeana) magnolias are early flowering magnolias. Early spring frosts destroy open flowers. In the mid-1980\u2019s the U.S. National Arboretum released 8 shrub-type cultivars as a series called the\u00a0\u201cLittle Girl Magnolias\u201d. They are hybrid crosses between M. liliiflora and M. stellata. Four cultivars- […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,674,806,988,989,551,843,990,601,777,630,705,7,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291"}],"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=8291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8304,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291\/revisions\/8304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}