Magnolia virginiana var. virginiana prophouse-summer-2027 Crossvine was virtually unavailable from

Crossvine was virtually unavailable from nurseries when Woodlanders began offering the plant in the early 1980s

from Nova Scotia and Quebec south to Florida and west toward Manitoba and Louisiana

the small purple-maroon spring flowers giving way

which is part of why grandiflorum has persisted along Coastal Plain roadsides where the native communities have largely disappeared

sited where the variegation and the pink-and-orange new growth can be read at close range and set against darker evergreens that throw the color forward

Magnolia virginiana var. virginiana prophouse-summer-2027 Crossvine was virtually unavailable fromThere is something quietly instructive about the range of Magnolia virginiana. The species runs from the cold, swampy woods of Gloucester, Massachusetts, where a small population clings to the northern edge of the natural territory, all the way down to the Gulf Coast of Texas, a span of climate and geography that would seem to demand two entirely different plants. In the North the sweetbay obliges by turning deciduous, multi stemmed, and compact,