Introducing…Magnolia!
G’day…g’day…introducing……*drum roll*….MAGNOLIA!!!
Oh what can I say about my Magnolia… well, according to the Royal Horticultural Society - Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers ‘magnolias in full bloom makes a spectacular sight in spring…most magnolias are elegant in habit through slow-growing…valuable focal point…’ and you know what?? It’s ALL so TRUE!
I can’t take the credit of actually planting the tree, as it was already here when we moved to this house, but I’m more than glad that it’s here.
It just has a certain ‘presence’ in the garden, as if …as if…it is the garden’s guardian. The branches flow with such grace, it’s not arrogant so as to overshadow everything else, but it complements.
At the first sign of spring, it would be the first to flower, as if to wake the rest of the sleepy garden from their winter slumber.
Then, at the end of spring when all the rest of the garden members are well awake and in full bloom, Magnolia then humbly bows and take a step back – its flowers fade…and leaves then start multiply.
That’s my Magnolia … it’s wise, it’s fair, it’s kind and it’s enchanting. 