pleached magnolia grandiflora
Bring timeless elegance and structure to your garden with the sought-after pleached magnolia grandiflora. Well-known for its glossy evergreen foliage and fragrant creamy-white blooms, Magnolia grandiflora lends itself beautifully to pleaching—a classic pruning method where the tree’s branches are trained along a horizontal framework. This creates living screens or leafy walls, perfect for privacy, garden rooms, and outdoor architecture. Whether you’re planning a formal landscape, want to border a driveway with style, or create a secluded courtyard, pleached magnolia grandiflora offers a versatile and graceful solution for New Zealand gardens.
Magnolia Teddy Bear (Magnolia grandiflora Teddy Bear)
Magnolia grandiflora Teddy Bear, commonly known as the Magnolia Teddy Bear Tree, is a variety of Southern Magnolia, and is an evergreen tree with spectacular flowering and foliage. It produces large and showy, white flowers through summer amidst the lush, dark green foliage. It grows densely with a conical shape to about 6 m tall and 3 m wide and can be contained with trimming. Magnolia Teddy Bear makes for a fantastic specimen tree, and is commonly included in a mixed planting, used to border an entrance, planted to soften a bland wall, or planted as a cluster.
Magnolia Kay Parris (Magnolia grandiflora Kay Parris)
Magnolia grandiflora Kay Parris, commonly known as Southern Magnolia or Evergreen Magnolia, is a small tree that produces masses of large and showy, white flowers through late spring and summer. The fragrant flowers are borne amidst the glossy, dark green leaves which serve as a lovely backdrop. It grows with a rounded habit to about 4 m tall and 3 m wide and responds well to trimming. Magnolia Kay Parris makes for a lovely specimen and is commonly added to a mixed planting, planted around outdoor living areas, used as a backdrop for smaller plants, or grown as a hedge.
