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Botanical Name:Iris spp. Sun Exposure: Full sun to part shade Soil Type: Medium to moist, well-draining, rich Soil pH: Slightly acidic to Neutral (6.5-7.5) USDA Hardiness Zones: 3 to 10. In ...
Essential Pruning Tips. Whether you are pruning a small tree or a perennial, use these pruning tips to promote a healthy, long-lived plant. 1. Remove dead, damaged, and diseased material right away.
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Pruning is a horticultural, arboricultural, and silvicultural practice involving the selective removal of certain parts of a plant, such as branches, buds, or roots. The practice entails the targeted removal of diseased , damaged, dead, non-productive, structurally unsound, or otherwise unwanted plant material from crop and landscape plants .
Once established, the plants are drought tolerant, and the most drought tolerant of all the Magnolia species. [29] The leaves are heavy and tend to fall year round from the interior of the crown and form a dense cover over the soil surface, [29] and they have been used in decorative floral arrangements. [30]
Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 to 340 [a] flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae.The natural range of Magnolia species is disjunct, with a main center in east, south and southeast Asia and a secondary center in eastern North America, Central America, the West Indies, and some species in South America.
Two varieties of Magnolia kobus are recognized by some sources, such as Hortus Third, [5] with var. borealis being a tree to 25 m (75 ft) high, with leaves to 15 cm (6 in) long, and var. kobus, a tree to 10 m (30 ft) high, with leaves to 10 cm (4 in) long. Magnolia kobus is classified within Magnolia subgenus Yulania.
Magnolia × loebneri Kache [1] is a hybrid of two Magnolia species, the Japanese Magnolia kobus and M. stellata. [ 2 ] crossed by Garteninspektor Max Löbner of Pillnitz, Germany, shortly before World War I; [ 3 ] it first flowered in 1917. [ 4 ]