Magnolia plant leaves discolouring

Hello all

I’m looking for some advice, please. The leaves on our Magnolia plant in our garden have started to discolour. The leaves are turning a yellowish brown. We don’t believe that it’s under watering or overwatering that’s causing the problem, but we’re struggling to think what else it could be. Can anyone offer some advice please?

thanks

 

Hi, that isn't an evergreen magnolia so it's just naturally shutting down for winter. In the spring you will get a nice new flush of leaves.

 

I can't tell whether it's an evergreen variety or a deciduous one without knowing the variety, but even the evergreen ones lose leaves, just not all at the same time. Whichever type it is, that's probably just natural leaf loss in progress.

 

My magnolias are all deciduous and are currently shutting down for winter - this is what they look like at the moment:

Far left is Magnolia 'Red Lucky', centre is Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Yellow Bird’, right is
Magnolia Soulangeana.

 

Thank you all it turns out it’s a deciduous magnolia!

Magnolia soulangeana

How embarrassing!

 

Don't worry @Peteski2024 - we all had to learn at the start of our gardening journeys- and no matter how old we get, we're still regularly learning something new. The biggest difficulty as you get older is remembering any of it!
The only thing I'd add is - you may find it'll struggle long term as it's in a pot. It also looks like a terracotta one and they absorb more moisture than something like a glazed one, which can also lead to the soil mix drying out more rapidly.
Anything potted, especially shrubs and trees, is more work in containers than in the ground, so if you have a good site for it, it would be better to get it planted out at some point.

 

Thanks very much for your reply. Plants in containers like this stress me out massively so I think once the weather improves early next year it will go into the ground. Given it was a tenth the size when I bought it it’s not done too badly …. Up until the leaves dropping!!

 

Yes - it'll be happier, and so will you if it's in the ground!
Much easier to manage them. They're fine for a while, as most trees and shrubs are, but keeping anything like that long term in a container is a lot more work. You'll probably find that there's a lot of roots and not so much soil when you take it out.