Magnolia Garden Trees

Browse our range of beautiful Magnolia Trees, grown for the beauty of their spring flowers they are available in a wide range of colours including shades of white, pink, purple and yellow. They make fabulous trees and shrubs and we have varieties that are suited to small and large gardens. Most Magnolia Trees are deciduous but we also stock some handsome evergreen varieties that could even be used for screening.

Magnolia Trees

At Hopes Grove Nurseries we stock a wide range of these beautiful trees and shrubs from the larger growing types such as Magnolia Heaven Scent and Magnolia Rustica Rubra through to the much smaller Magnolia Stellata varieties. We also stock some promising new evergreen varieties including Magnolia White Caviar and Magnolia Gail’s favourite, both grow to just 2 metres and with a bushy habit of growth they are great plants for the smaller garden, in containers or even as a very unusual flowering hedge!

Although deciduous Magnolia trees are perfectly hardy plants, the young flower buds can be damaged so its worth planting them away from frost pockets and sheltered from strong winds and gales. Most gardens can offer a suitable spot and they also do very well in the shelter provided by a woodland garden. They can be combined effectively with other plants enjoying the same conditions such as Rhododendrons, Azaleas and Camellias to provide a long season of flowering during spring and early summer. Evergreen Magnolias prefer a sheltered spot, the evergreen leaves can be damaged during very cold weather and they are often grown against the protection of a wall in cold areas.

Magnolias are quite easy to grow, they prefer a good depth of topsoil that is well drained but does not dry our too much in the summer months. If you have some reasonable garden soil this can be matched exactly to the Magnolias liking with the generous addition of organic matter, well mixed. Adding rootgrow at planting time will ensure they get a good start and a generous mulch after planting should result in strong and healthy growth in the first few years.

Established Magnolia trees seldom need pruning, except to remove damaged, diseased, or congested branches. Occasionally young Magnolia trees may need a little formative pruning to encourage a nice shape. This is best carried out during the warm summer months for deciduous varieties. Evergreen Magnolias should be pruned in spring before they come into growth.