Magnolia

Hi all
Hoping I can get some help on my poor magnolia! When we moved into the house, possibly two years previous an apple tree with a grape vine growing up it was blown over in the wind, sorry to say but both were in a bad state so we decided to dig it all out and remove it from the garden, under the mamouth mess was a smaller tree, It had broken branches etc so we cut them off to protect the tree, it was only in spring did I find out that it was a beautiful magnolia, As you can see from the photos, can we straighten it out and if so any help would be appreciated ? If you notice in the background we may have salvaged some of the grape vine too

 

Tbh, I would dig it out, and start fresh with a new one.

It will always look lop-sided and out of proportion.

 

Oh that's so sad as the display it gave in spring was so beautiful, shame the previous owner didn't chop the apple/grape vine down at the time instead of leaving it there

 

You could prune it right back to the main stump and allow it to re grow, but it would be a few years before it produced flowers again. Sad really.

 

I thought that @Palustris, I'm just looking at it now it has lots of new buds coming along, I could plant a new one along side it?

 

I would'nt. The roots of the old one will be fairly extensive and a new one would probably not thrive on the competition.

 

Ah thank you @Palustris, that could have been disastrous

 

And a decent sized Magnolia is going to cost a fair few pennies. We were looking at some 3 to 4 feet tall ones and they were £60 in a normally cheapish Nursery.