Show Your Magnolia Blooms....!

Lots of us have Magnolias so lets have a look at yours.... !

It seems whenever my Magnolia starts to open we have a change for the worse in the weather each year... This was yesterday, not sure how it will look after this spell of bad weather...


How's your looking.??

 

Here are a selection I have taken over the pas week.. The weather has certainly taken it's toll again this year.. All the frosts, winds, rain, snow & sunshine have it confused I think.. So many of the petals are brown & allot of buds dropped off in the bad weather... :(

None the less it has still given us a good show....


This was on a bad day....

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A couple of closer shots show how tinged with brown the petals are... :(


As they started to open..

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Opened..

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They are such beautiful flowers it is such a shame the weather has given them such a battering..!!

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Maybe next year we will be luckier... It has to be because it seems to flower just a bit earlier than other peoples around here for some reason..!!

 

I reckon you could be right there Nik.. Mine used to be allot pinker when I first had it, but over the years it has started to flower earlier & not anywhere near so pink... This I know is all down to the fact that the council put a street lamp on the other side of the wall not far from my tree, so it has 24hrs of light a day now..!!! I don't think that is good for it in the long run either..!!!! :rolleyes: