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southern magnolia, bull bay magnolia "GOLIATH"

Magnolia grandiflora (
Magnolia grandiflora ("Praecox")
"GOLIATH"

southern magnolia, bull bay magnolia

USUAL HEIGHT and WIDTH
3-8m x 3-4m
LEAVES
evergreen broadleaf
SIZE/TYPE
taller shrub		 COLOUR OF LEAVES

green
BLOOMING TIME
June - September
LOCATION
full sun		 FLOWERS
showy
USDA zone (lowest)
6b   (down to -21°C) 		COLOUR OF FLOWERS

white
WINTER PROTECTION
for zone 5+6
Code of winter protection zone 5+6
for zone 7
Code of winter protection zone 7
 Belongs to categories
Evergreen broadleaf
Summer blooms
Magnolias
Exotics
SIZE and PRICES
form container size size quality price (incl. VAT) where in stock sending options quantity
De Luxe
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De Luxe
 PRAGUE BY CAR
De Luxe
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EXTRA
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EXTRA
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EXTRA
 CHLUMEC BY CAR
EXTRA
 CHLUMEC BY POST
EXTRA
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NOT IN STOCK? WHY NOT TO TRY A SIMILAR ONE:
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GLOSSARY

  • STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.
  • DE LUXE QUALITY - This label guarantees a luxurious quality of manually selected plants that, compared to their height and age, are exceptionally dense and beautiful.
  • EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.
  • STANDARD (as described in the plant form) means a tree with a trunk of 190-210 cm and a crown at the top, unless specified differently. The commercial size for trees is their girth measured in the height of 1m from ground.
  • SHRUB - a woody plant with branches growing bushy from the ground level.
  • HALF-STANDARD or MINI-STANDARD - a small tree with shorter trunk, its size is usually specified.
  • FEATHERED - These are trees with branches growing already from the base of the trunk and up along the stem.
  • GRASSES and PERENNIALS - Sizes given usually read the diameter of the pot or the clump, as specified.
 DESCRIPTION
Evergreen magnolias are the queens of flowering trees. We choose the most beautiful and at the same time hardiest varieties.

Goliath is bushier than the species. As you can tell by its name, something is going to be extraordinary here. True: the flowers are extremely large, often 30 cm wide, strongly fragrant and appear on the plant continuously from June, throughout the summer, until the last warm and sunny days of autumn. It starts flowering when only 3 years old.

The leaves are brighter green than other bull bay magnolias with a warmer shade of green. They have rusty pubescence on the undersides and tend to curl at the tips, which are more rounded compared to the species. It is a little narrower than others and grows to some 8 m in USDA zone 6, whereas in the south of Europe it can reach over 15 m.

Find it a location with plenty of direct sunlight in summer, protected from cutting winds. If you can find such spot, grow it in winter shade. It needs slightly acidic soil, very rich in humus, moist but permeable.

It seems that thanks to the attractiveness of huge flowers its cold resistance has not been a subject for further investigations. As if large flowers were good enough. Though, we tried it in zone 6. It proved to survive -24°C but we do recommend covering it with white woven on the coldest days of winter FOR MAXIMUM 2 WEEKS, and in periods of strong sunlight and/or cutting wind in combination with temperatures below zero (especially in early spring). In winter provide extra watering in frost-free periods.

Last update 31-01-2008.