i just bought a magnolia stellata, and now i'm wondering why! for what it's worth, the local garden centre plant "doctor" told me that magnolias which are subjected to cold winds, even in early winter, suffer damage to the buds which are not yet properly formed, and this can result in no flowers. he was very definite that it must be planted against a wall facing west, or south, but never where the morning sun can cause the buds to suffer frost burn. all the surviving mag. stellatas that i know, were well wrapped this winter. it sounds as though we had very similar conditions to yours (i'm in switzerland).
T have the same problem, but I think is because a acer tree has grow to big and the magnolia is in deep shadow in summer and I was on holiday when the tree needed to be watering. Nu I try watering when the buds start grow Unfortunately, I have any bud this year ether.
I was hoping for some advice. I bought a magnolia stella about 5 years ago now and it has NEVER flowered. Not once. It has grown san awful lot, but I thought that magnolias didn't need trimming and so I haven't. It is always covered in catkins, but not one flower yet.
Any advice? I'm desperate for flowers. That's why I bought it
we moved into a house this winter and have a couple of large magnolia stelleta in the front garden. One half of the largest tree is budding nicely but the other half is apparently dead. Is there any diseases we should be aware of before we chop down the dead half?
we moved into a house this winter and have a couple of large magnolia stelleta in the front garden. One half of the largest tree is budding nicely but the other half is apparently dead. Is there any diseases we should be aware of before we chop down the dead half?
I found this forum when looking for a possible cause for the death of my beautiful star magnolia this winter. There were no signs of problems, it is probably at least 30-40 years old, and yesterday when I looked closely - because it is normally the first thing to bloom in my garden and it never woke up from winter -- i saw that the branches were all bone dry and brittle. It looks like the whole tree is dead. We had a relatively mild winter this year so it couldn't have been the cold temperatures. Any thoughts on a possible cause? I'm so heartbroken!
Exactly the same thing has happened with my magnolia, it's over 10 years old and has always been the first to show, but this year, nothing. I scraped a little bit of bark off, and it doesn't seem to be dead, it's as if it simply hasn't woken up, not a bud or growth of any sort.
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i just bought a magnolia stellata, and now i'm wondering why! for what it's worth, the local garden centre plant "doctor" told me that magnolias which are subjected to cold winds, even in early winter, suffer damage to the buds which are not yet properly formed, and this can result in no flowers. he was very definite that it must be planted against a wall facing west, or south, but never where the morning sun can cause the buds to suffer frost burn. all the surviving mag. stellatas that i know, were well wrapped this winter. it sounds as though we had very similar conditions to yours (i'm in switzerland).
T have the same problem, but I think is because a acer tree has grow to big and the magnolia is in deep shadow in summer and I was on holiday when the tree needed to be watering. Nu I try watering when the buds start grow Unfortunately, I have any bud this year ether.
rose
Hello everybody,
I was hoping for some advice. I bought a magnolia stella about 5 years ago now and it has NEVER flowered. Not once. It has grown san awful lot, but I thought that magnolias didn't need trimming and so I haven't. It is always covered in catkins, but not one flower yet.
Any advice? I'm desperate for flowers. That's why I bought it
Sarah
Hi Sarah
I think the 'catkins' you refer to are fuzzy flower buds - I'm not sure why they're not opening into flowers for you.
Is it in a position where the buds may be damaged by frost?
Does it get plenty of water and sunshine?
Do you ever see pigeons or squirrels in your magnolia eating the buds?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello Dovefromabove
Okay, so the tree is in the front garden, which admittedly gets the sun in a morning from sunrise, but then it's in shade for the afternoon.
Loads of sunshine - no. Some, but I have the suspicion maybe not enough.
No I've never seen anything eating the buds. It's actually completely full of them at present.
Then we shall keep our fingers crossed for flowers very soon
Let us know how things progress
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi,
we moved into a house this winter and have a couple of large magnolia stelleta in the front garden. One half of the largest tree is budding nicely but the other half is apparently dead. Is there any diseases we should be aware of before we chop down the dead half?
Hi,
we moved into a house this winter and have a couple of large magnolia stelleta in the front garden. One half of the largest tree is budding nicely but the other half is apparently dead. Is there any diseases we should be aware of before we chop down the dead half?
Thanks
Hello!
I found this forum when looking for a possible cause for the death of my beautiful star magnolia this winter. There were no signs of problems, it is probably at least 30-40 years old, and yesterday when I looked closely - because it is normally the first thing to bloom in my garden and it never woke up from winter -- i saw that the branches were all bone dry and brittle. It looks like the whole tree is dead. We had a relatively mild winter this year so it couldn't have been the cold temperatures. Any thoughts on a possible cause? I'm so heartbroken!
Thanks