Magnolia virginiana var. virginiana prophouse-summer-2027 neat and pyramidal when young

neat and pyramidal when young and rounding with age

a quiet and slightly otherworldly version of the classic bottlebrush

Hardy well north into zone 5

sited where the variegation and the pink-and-orange new growth can be read at close range and set against darker evergreens that throw the color forward

Crossvine was virtually unavailable from nurseries when Woodlanders began offering the plant in the early 1980s

Magnolia virginiana var. virginiana prophouse-summer-2027 neat and pyramidal when youngThere is something quietly instructive about the range of Magnolia virginiana. The species runs from the cold, swampy woods of Gloucester, Massachusetts, where a small population clings to the northern edge of the natural territory, all the way down to the Gulf Coast of Texas, a span of climate and geography that would seem to demand two entirely different plants. In the North the sweetbay obliges by turning deciduous, multi stemmed, and compact,