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03-08-2009, 11:37 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Charlie Pridham[_2_]
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please help identify
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"Spider" wrote in message
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"bluebelly" wrote in message
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Hi all - I have a small bush/tree in the garden I bought house last year
and now for 2 seasons I have yet to see it flower or do something. June
time it has loads of the buds shown in image but again as last year
they have all but one vanished, either I have incredibly intelligent
wildlife or my neighbours are pinching them, if it's wildlife I can
start to protect them but I am unsure. The buds are firmly attached to
the branches so I woudn't have thought they would fall off, they are
about 2 inches long.
I have no idea what the tree/shrub/bush is (I am new to gardening since
buying my house which has a very estabilished garden) so any help would
be great.
I have uploaded an image for you to view.
http://tinyurl.com/ml6y6t
Thanks in advance
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bluebelly
I think it may be a Magnolia grandiflora, or a Magnolia of some kind. M.
grandifloras, though, often have year-round sporadic flowering, rather
than a seasonal flush, which means you don't notice it flowering unless
you look carefully - not at all like the M. soulangeana or M. stellata
types, which are all too obviously in flower :~).
Spider
It certainly looks like a Magnolia or Liriodendron.
someone
The flower buds look nothing like magnolia
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Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
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