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25-04-2004, 01:03 PM

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Hi - I wonder if anyone can give me some advice. I purchased a magnolia at
a garden centre yesterday - Heaven Scent. This was the only one of this
variety that they had although they had many other varieties in flower.

The shrub\tree is approx 5ft 6inches tall and is covered in leave bud but no
flower bud to be seen. Now I have planted it I am a little worried that I
have bought one that is 'sterile' or non flowering as so many of the other
varieties at the centre were in flower.

Is is possible for a magnolia to be non flowering - are there male\female
magnolias.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks
Ann

No tree flowers befor it's reached sexual maturity, and I have never had
a tree or shrub that flowered the same year it was planted, unless it
was already in flower at the nursery.

I don't really think plants like being moved when they're flowering, but
some nurseries sell them like that to make them more attractive.

But anyway, I don't think magnolias blossom before they leaf like fruit
trees do. Isn't a magnolia a later flowerer?

Male and female of sexually reproducing plants both flower, that's how
the pollen gets transferred. The gender difference is in the seeding or
fruiting.