Does anyone have a Magnolia Tree?

[Pascha]

the ones with the big tulip flowers? Are they nice all year? What conditions do they like?

They look ike some sort of angry mutant Rosemary plant!

Yes, they were weird things that appeared in the garden on their own and grew really quickly - I thought they were some sort of evening primrose, but the leaves were wrong - general consensus was a euphorbia, but I still think the flowers were wrong for that, they were large simple yellow flowers in a ring near the top, not sticking out of the top like euphorbia. However, they've disappeared now, so I'm not worried any more (until the next ones appear!)

I'm also in the northwest and all the gardens have them :) I think they are wonderful (and was thrilled that I inherited one with my new house: I had a stellata in my old house but it was only a metre tall). Like somebody else said they grow very slowly.
I do want one shaped like a peacock now. PKW can we have a photo of it?

at all these lovely magnolias. I want one now. Has anyone got one that isn't 10ft+ tall though?

Mine is nowhere near that big - but then, I only got it last year as a 50th birthday present and as others have said, they are very slow growing.

The trees up here have just demonstrated one of their negatives: just as they were approaching peak blossom, with about a 3rd of their flowers out (I'm in Glasgow, so our season is not as advanced as the South East) we got that really cold snap mid week, with snow, icy winds and hail - and all the flowers have gone leathery and brown

We had a bush in our front garden in The Parental Home. I think it stayed small - about 3ft - as my grandmother pruned it every year, unless it was a particular type of magnolia that was a bush rather than a tree.

Mine is as tall as the house! Pure white with no hint of pink. It came with the house which is 13 years old.

Stunning when in flower, dull for the rest of the year. I haven't done anything to it neither pruned it or fed it. It always flowers at the very end of March.