To my way of thinking Magnolia stellata is by no means one of the most beautiful, being ragged and tattered-looking, but a well grown bush is certainly effective seen at a distance. #gardening
Detailed instructions are given as to which flowers respond best to this medieval-sounding treatment. #gardening
Vita Sackville-West
Vita Sackville-West
So you see. Its only serious enemy, very serious indeed, is a March frost which may turn its candid purity to a leathery khaki brown. Sometimes Magnolia denudata escapes; one must take the risk; it is worth taking. #gardening
I planted one twenty years ago, and it has long since achieved a height of 20' and a spread of 15.' #gardening
June ‘55
Many people hesitate to plant that most noble of flowering trees, the magnolia, under the impression that they will never live long enough or remain long enough in the same place to see it flower. #gardening
Not the least useful part of her book is the section which deals with the care of cut flowers. As most of us already know flowers last very much longer if you have stamped on their stems, stripped them of their leaves and plunged them into boiling water. #gardening
The Yulan tree, Magnolia denudata, produces its creamy chalices within a year or two of planting and increases in size and fertility until it is one hundred years old or more. #gardening
The receptacles into which Mrs Spry puts her flowers are equally varied: a wooden bowl, a silver sauce-boat, a tin-lined bible-box, and something which she calls a pancheon. #gardening
M. stellata, which also flowers in extreme youth, is perhaps the most familiar of all the magnolias to be seen in the amateur gardener’s #garden. #gardening
But Mrs Spry is equally happy with fir-cones or with some of the ordinary herbs such as fennel whose lovely feathery foliage has not escaped her eye, or with the yellow heads of the Woad that furnished our ancestors with a blue dye. #gardening
