Have yet to take a photo, but maybe someone could ID from my description. There's a tree about 6ft tall & 6ft wide in a front garden down the road with large (fist sized) pinkish white, upward pointing flowers on. The flowers are sort of lily like, no leaves just lots and lots of big flowers.
Any ideas?
Pretty tree ID
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Re: Pretty tree ID
I agree, sounds like magnolia to me, too.
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Take nobody's word for it, especially not mine! If I offer you an ID of something based on a photo, please treat it as a guess, and a starting point for further investigations.
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Re: Pretty tree ID
Definitely sounds like a Magnolia, round here the Magnolia stellata are in flower, and the large cup-flowered trees have fat buds just itching to break.
Dan Person had an article in the Guardian recently on growing them - http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... -magnolias
Dan Person had an article in the Guardian recently on growing them - http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... -magnolias
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Re: Pretty tree ID
The big things are Magnolia Grandiflora,usual prob they have is late frosts which brown the flowers before they open.or something a bit splendid,google Trewidden Blue.
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Re: Pretty tree ID
Handkerchief tree (davidii?)?
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