An elderly gentlemen was my neighbor of quit a few years and he planted his yard with so many wonderful trees and shrubs. The new younger family are good friends so I just walk over and start shooting the magnolia tree.
I don't know the variety but we can only grow this one kind in Iowa. I was surprised as to how thick the petals are on these flowers. They almost have the thickness of plastic flowers, compared to the delicate flowers of fruit trees. They are also large blooms. I think they are about the size of small persons closed fist.
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It's beautiful Larry... but you'd be surprised at how many varieties of magnolia would grow in Iowa... after all you're generally a milder climate than here in Wisconsin. I have 40 different magnolia cultivars growing in the garden (60 plants in all), and very few of them are the soulangiana as is likely the plant in your photo. However, the pictured cultivar is an extra nice plant as it has better color than some more common soulangianas. When in Iowa for the past few days, I noticed lots of grand old magnolias, but nearly all were soulangianas or saucer magnolias. Larry
Beautifully captured!
Magnolia trees are such a source of pleasure for the eye all year long, but especially when they sport their magnificent blossoms in April.
We used to have a very old magnolia tree in our garden in Washington, DC, with the same blossoms as your neighbor's. Beside it stood a small pink Star Magnolia, which must have been a dwarf variety because it was also decades old.
I am so grateful that there are many magnolia trees around the neighborhood in my new hometown. They remind me of my old one.
Very pretty, Larry and the red and yelo tulip too.
One of my neighbour has a magnolia and every year it is a real beauty.
They do look plastic, don't they! I love magnolia and gardenia blossoms and leaves
I love the first shot of these magnificent flowers. Mine's not doing very well lately.
Beautiful!! I was surprised to see them in Iowa!! :)
This is the saucer Magnolia that can tolerate our zone. Some, one, Japanese Maple survives here. We live in a zone 4 and yet you head fifty miles south it is zone 5. It isn't a straight line we are surrounded buy zone 5 east and west also. We can grow peach trees for some years and then we become zone 4 and they are gone. We fluctuate way too much to plan on growing anything zone 5.
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