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Other Names:  White Fairy Magnolia

Group/Class:  Fairy® Magnolias

Brand:  Anthony Tesselaar Plants

Description:

A dense and bushy evergreen magnolia presenting volumes of elegant white blooms in early to mid-spring, and then sporadically later; a small tree or large shrub with a tidy pyramidal form and large green leaves; an ideal hedge, screen or landscape accent

Ornamental Features

Fairy® White Magnolia is covered in stunning fragrant white cup-shaped flowers with buttery yellow eyes along the branches from early to mid spring before the leaves. It has dark green evergreen foliage. The large oval leaves remain dark green throughout the winter.

Landscape Attributes

Fairy® White Magnolia is a multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other landscape plants with finer foliage.

This is a relatively low maintenance shrub, and should only be pruned after flowering to avoid removing any of the current season's flowers. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Fairy® White Magnolia is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Mass Planting
• Hedges/Screening

Planting & Growing

Fairy® White Magnolia will grow to be about 12 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 7 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 1 foot from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 50 years or more.

This shrub does best in full sun to partial shade. It requires an evenly moist well-drained soil for optimal growth, but will die in standing water. This plant should not require much in the way of fertilizing once established, although it may appreciate a shot of general-purpose fertilizer from time to time early in the growing season. It is not particular as to soil type, but has a definite preference for acidic soils. It is quite intolerant of urban pollution, therefore inner city or urban streetside plantings are best avoided. Consider applying a thick mulch around the root zone in winter to protect it in exposed locations or colder microclimates. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.

This plant is not reliably hardy in our region, and certain restrictions may apply; contact the store for more information.