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Once wonderful Magnolias shadows of their former selves
Diane York
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Can anyone help us understand why our Magnolia and our neighbours Magnolia trees are barely flowering. There used to be an absolute abundance of flowers, yet they barely have one branch flowering on each tree. There is a silver birch in the neighbours garden so unsure if that is affecting them or is it just that they have reached the end of their flowering lifetime 
Any help / pointers would be most helpful thank you
Any help / pointers would be most helpful thank you
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We inherited a small one here, tho clearly old and rather sick looking after a few years of neglect and a summer of drought. It produced one branch of luscious, deep magenta, tulip shaped flowers that faded to paler pink.
The soil seems poor below so, after copious watering we spread several bags or ericaceous compost beneath it. I have also fed it with pelleted chicken manure and watered it thru subsequent dry periods. This was it last spring.
The wooden edge you can see has now been replaced by a stone edge holding in more ericaceous compost and now topped with chipped bark. Too soon to say what it will do this spring as it only has a few buds showing yet.