{"id":9312,"date":"2016-12-13T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=9312"},"modified":"2016-12-01T16:55:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T21:55:22","slug":"small-southern-magnolia-cultivars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2016\/12\/13\/small-southern-magnolia-cultivars\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Southern Magnolia Cultivars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora<\/em>) is one of nature\u2019s magnificent landscape trees (USDA hardiness zones 6-9). \u00a0This reliable large tree, native to the Southern U.S., is\u00a0at home in well-drained clay soils and hot summers. The species typically grows to 60-80 feet tall with a pyramidal (young) to a rounded crown (mature tree). It is not uncommon to see the species growing in Boston, New York City and other major urban centers.<\/p>\n

Short, more compact, cultivars are available for smaller landscapes (see below). Southern magnolias are cherished for their attractive dark green evergreen foliage and showy fragrant flowers. Large 5 to 6 inch pure white goblet shaped flowers appear sporadically from mid-spring thru late-summer. Trees shed older leaves in spring as new ones emerge.<\/p>\n

Southern magnolia thrives in a moist, humus-rich, mildly acidic soil and in full sun. Young trees are shade tolerant, but do not flower as well, and will require\u00a0more sunlight as it ages. Roots are shallow and spread widely into lawn areas. Trees tolerate short intervals in wet soggy soils without injury. Once established, within a two year span, select cultivars are highly tolerant of long dry summer spells. On occasion boughs get weighed down and snap off\u00a0under heavy snow and ice loads.<\/p>\n

Leading compact cultivars:<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Kay Parris’ – this beautiful compact form has caught the eye of both professional\u00a0landscapers and gardeners. It has extremely glossy, bright green leaves with dark red russet fuzzy underneath, and long flowering season.<\/p>\n

\u2018Hasse\u2019- grows 35-45 feet high and 18-20 feet wide after 30 years. Young trees exhibit\u00a0tight narrow branching, glossy dark green leaves, and dusty red underneath.<\/p>\n

‘Alta\u2019 is a sister seedling of \u2018Hasse\u2019 and has a definitive columnar form. Alta is more slow growing to 20 feet tall and 9 feet wide in 10 years. Branches hold their upright \u201cstovepipe\u201d form for many years. Dark green glossy leaves are rusty underneath.<\/p>\n

\u2018Little Gem\u2019 is an old and very\u00a0popular cultivar. It can be trained into\u00a0compact tree but grows naturally shrub-like to 30 to 35 feet height. Glossy green leaves are bronze-brown underneath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) is one of nature\u2019s magnificent landscape trees (USDA hardiness zones 6-9). \u00a0This reliable large tree, native to the Southern U.S., is\u00a0at home in well-drained clay soils and hot summers. The species typically grows to 60-80 feet tall with a pyramidal (young) to a rounded crown (mature tree). It is not uncommon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,657,1319,749,778,674,645,806,1115,800,602,1012,774,853,623,865,551,627,843,936,1060,990,951,601,729,777,630,706,646,7,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312"}],"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=9312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9316,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9312\/revisions\/9316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}