Magnolia Gallery

The Magnolia genus is another plant family that manages to take my breath away. You can only grow a few magnolias in Southern Finland, so I treasure the ones I have very dearly.

My best magnolia is Magnolia kobus var. borealis, Magnolia ‘Leonard Messel’ does quite well and my mother has a ‘Merrill’ that shows potential. I have a ‘Raspberry Ice’ that struggles. Before I was forced to move ‘Sunsation’ and ‘Woodsman’ they were doing well, but the move killed them. I had a Magnolia sieboldii that was doing fairly well, but it was planted in a place that was too dry. A few summer’s ago the drought killed it. My newest magnolia is a Magnolia stellata ‘Rosea’, so far it seems to do well. I will no doubt extend my collection at some point!

Some of the magnolias in the slideshow are from home and a lot of them grow in much warmer climates! You will find the foreign magnolias in this blog’s Garden Travel section. Most of them are named.