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Mimosa is a cross between Prunus campanulata and Prunus Tangshi that has produced a sterile hybrid

Cherry Tangshi is a low chill fruiting cherry that ripens late November in Taranaki. A compact rounded tree that is self fertile and grown easily with some shelter. Plants are container grown rods approximately 1m tall

An evergreen wintersweet that grows into a large shrub or small tree. Starry creamyyellow flowers in autumn-winter with a light sweet perfume. Best in half day sun with cool roots. Smaller narrower foliage than nitens. 2.5m Category: Species Non MagnoliaChimonanthus nitens var salicifoliusAn evergre...

Selected form of Wintersweet without the usualbronze throat. Best in half day sun with cool roots.Trim after flowering if needed. Deciduous 2.5m

This is an interesting deciduous shrub with rich green, slightly glossy leaves and interesting magnolia-like flowers from early to mid summer on the tips of short spurs with the new growth. The flowers are a rich maroon-red-brown colour, actually much richer than pictured.The bush requires at least...

Magnolia delavayi in an interesting evergreen species often sought after by florists. It has an unsual flowering habit over 2 nights with the first evening opening female just on dusk, then the following evening opening half an hour earlier in the male phase. The flowers are quite perfumed when opening and you can smell them before you see them.

This is a subspecies of Magnolia macrophylla that grows in the cloud forest at high altitude in eastern Mexico. This variety is less hardy than the other 2 subspecies and is a large grower with handsome foliage. It starts to flower at a young age and reasonable size as can be seen from this flower ...

This was introduced to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University in Boston. It is derived from Magnolia stellata Waterlily and inherits the characteristic of showing a hint of pink, especially in a cool season. This is a very free flowering plant which makes a r...

This is a magnificent tree from Caerhay’s Castle in Cornwall. Imported by Peter Cave, this is one of the forms collected from the wild. It has a distinctive coarse textured bark, different to most other magnolias. Beautiful sculpted flowers like porcelain are produced after about 4 years. Foli...

This is one of the best coloured yellow hybrids forming a small to medium sized rounded tree to about 4m in 10 years. It has received mixed reviews overseas with many references saying it takes up to 10 years to settle down to blooming, but this is DEFINIETLY NOT OUR EXPERIENCE. We have had Butterf...

Magnolia ashei is classed as a subspecies of Magnolia macrophylla. This is probably the best garden plant of the species as it is the smallest grower. The foliage is generally healthier looking than ssp macrophylla. It occurs naturally in a limited range in northern Florida, where it lives in canyon...

Raised by Vance Hooper at Duncan and Davies and named about 1995.Special features:A compact free flowering hybrid that originally flowered 2 years from seed. Upright sturdy growth on a bush that likes to clump from the base. Dark, healthy foliage that offsets the numerous summer flowers. Spring flowers are a rich reddish violet, a very difficult colour to reproduce.

This is thought to be a hybrid with wonderful perfume. It is difficult to propagate but we have managed to do it after years of experimentation.It a native plant of Java and is grown throughout South East Asia so it is a little tender and can only tolerate a few degrees of frost. It can be grown su...

This has been grown for many years by Peter Cave and is probably Michelia floribunda. Aptly named as it has masses of creamy scented flowers on a rounded tree to 4m in 10 years. New growth is covered with silky bronze hairs like a shiny cinnamon dusting, and the plant is quite hardy with inland clim...

This variety was selected by John Wills from Trelinoe, the garden he and his wife Fiona have developed over the last forty years or so. It was originally obtained as a seedling of magnolia campbellii and flowered particularly well with a very impressive white flushed pink bloom. SKU: 30 Category: Ra...

This variety was selected at Duncan and Davies in the 1950’s or 60’s when it layered better than the other forms by setting flower buds on the first year layers. The tree has a rounded canopy with masses of flowers that fill the garden with a spicy sweet perfume.

Deryk’ is named in honour of Deryk Lawrence who, along with his wife Nancy, developed a garden over a period of 20 years at Otamarakau, south of Te Puke. As the garden developed, wild magnolia seedlings came up and Deryk quietly took them aside and lined them out to see how they flowered. The...

Cook Splendour’ was raised from a seedling at Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust as part of the original plantings, with a number of seedlings planted around the gardens. These seedlings were imported from Hilliers Nursery about 1951 by Douglas Cook when he was planting at Eastwood Hill. He donated a ...

Cleopatra’ has a very similar colour to her great grandfather ‘Lanarth’. An attractive crystaline red-purple that almost has a metalic sheen. The growth habit is an upright small tree with a columnar to pyramidal habit. ‘Cleopatra’ will produce summer flowers, particul...

NEW RELEASE FOR 2013.Cameo is a sister seedling to Cleopatra and is the latest release from the Magnolia Grove breeding program. A stunning bloom with a sculpted form like a cameo broach. Reddish purple exterior with clean white flushed red-purple interior. Cameo has exceptional flower power, secon...

Brixton Salmon flowered 4 years from seed and is a hybrid of ‘Genie’ x ‘Sir Harold Hillier’.We didn’t propagate it for a few years due to its strong growing habit, but as it was an unusual rich salmon colour and flowered profusely we have done a few. Be prepared for a l...

Brixton Belle (Sweet Simplicity x Black Tulip) x ‘Sir Harold Hillier’This is our flagship variety and one of the ultimate hybrids from Magnolia Grove.This is an exciting new hybrid born and bred in the district of Brixton, North Taranaki, New Zealand. Finally we have an instant Magnolia...

(M. soulangeana ‘Amabilis’ x M. cylindrica)‘Billowing Cloud’ was raised from open pollinated seed at Duncan and Davies by Vance Hooper.Special features: ‘Billowing Cloud’ develops a rounded habit to about 3m in 10 years. It is very free flowering and the flowers have the distinctive perfume of M. cylindrica.

Magnolia ‘Aurora’ was raised by Os Blumhardt of Whangarei and is probably his best hybrid. It is a cross between ‘Starwars’ and M. sargentiana var robusta. It forms a columnar tree with an upright habit and settles down to flower in the second or third year from planting. On...