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magnolia grandiflora goliath - help me please
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09-06-2004, 05:28 PM
Sacha
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magnolia grandiflora goliath - help me please
On 6/6/04 10:41, in article
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"Frogleg" wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 00:20:39 +0100, "Brian"
wrote:
"frazzled" wrote
I have just bought a small magnolia grandiflora goliath (approx. one metre
tall).It has three branches. I have never written to here before, & am in
need of some advice. I would like to know if anyone can tell me how to
trim/cut it to make it bushy & not let it grow too big.
It is not easy to advise. You have already made your choice~~ M.
grandiflora is potentially a large growing wall shrub though can be free
standing. To make it, as you wish, you could reduce growths in early spring
but it seems so painful~~and probably very many years without flowering ; if
at all.
Doesn't the cultivar name suggest that 'not too big' isn't one of this
plant's most prominent features?
http://www.habitas.org.uk/gardenflor...lia_grandi.htm
I have experience with 'shrubs' whose natural growth stops somewhere
around 20-30 feet (not of *my* choosing) and without constant pruning,
they'd reach it in short order.
I'd assumed that given the plant's name, the original question was posed by
a troll. ;-)
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