Description

A beautiful flowering accent tree for small home landscapes, features showy fragrant white cup-shaped flowers tinged purple in early spring; relatively coarse leaves and a neat upright habit of growth; flowers are occasionally lost to late spring frosts

Landscape Attributes

Purple Eye Magnolia is a deciduous tree with a distinctive and refined pyramidal form. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other landscape plants with finer foliage.

Purple Eye Magnolia is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Planting & Growing

Purple Eye Magnolia will grow to be about 30 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 30 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 5 feet from the ground, and should not be planted underneath power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 80 years or more.

This tree 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. It is not particular as to soil type, but has a definite preference for acidic soils. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. Consider applying a thick mulch around the root zone in winter to protect it in exposed locations or colder microclimates. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.