Pavel's diary

Magnolia tripetala flowers again. The bad smell is characteristic for its white flowers. The flower opened in late afternoon.

The first real morning frost in the garden (-1 C or -1.2 C are quite OK). Most ginkgos skipped "yellow phase" and went down immediately.

Magnolias look quite ok. Felix is untouched, Summer Solstice has few brown leaves. Both M. sieboldii with brown leaves, the one in the windy position is almost completely without leaves now.

Grandiflora and Woodsman look untouched. The same applies to Crystal Tulip. Interesting. Some leaves have brown borders, but still look ok. M. acuminata subcordata has almost all leaves in dark brown, all are very firm though (not touched by the morning frost).

Big brown leaves from tripetala fallen down on the lawn look ghostly. Yellow Lantern going yellow/light brown slowly.

Young (it is quite big now though ;-) L. chinense going to brown slowly. It has very large leaves.

I love magnolias despite the ugliness of their seed cones. Compare Magnolia x loebneri "Leonard Messel" and Magnolia stellata "Rosea".

The only flowering grandiflora here this year...

Magnolia Summer Solstice and Magnolia sieboldii opened their first flower buds this year.

Even more photos of this lovely magnolia.

No near-surface freeze in the morning, so wooohoo!

Magnolia 'Yellow Bird' (M. x brooklynensis 'Eva Maria' x M. acuminata var. subcordata) opened its first flower this year:



This is one of the best yellow magnolias (my favourite together with Daphne which will show its flowers in a few days).

Magnolia Summer Solstice (I bought it last year) survived our winter (-22 C this year) with no damage and shows three big flower buds.

The weather forecast predicts low temperatures for tomorrow morning, even near-surface freeze, so... Hopefully this will be the last cold spell in this wonderful "Magnolia" year.

This is one of my favourite magnolias. First flowered in 1972 for Joe McDaniel and I will put it in our garden tomorrow (should weather allow it). Finally! Even my wife enjoys it.

... even Magnolia "Sunrise". It looks too over-designed when in flower, but look at the flower bud. How magic.