Does anyone here have or grow cucumber magnolias? Being from the south, we adore magnolias, but this one, unlike the most common magnolia grown here in Tennessee & Mississippi, is decidious. It puts on fruits or seed pods after blooming that resemble a cucumber.
One of our best friends has one of these trees in their yard. They built their home on her grandparents old house place. Grandmother had bought this tree from mail order when my friends mother was yet a kid, so the tree is old. It is beautiful, and huge. Strangely though, it has never had any small ones come up around it.
Through the years, my friend wanted another tree, no one had ever heard of them. I fell in love with the tree also and have craved one. I have asked at every nursery, scoured every nursery book I could find, no cucumber magnolia. This week I got the bright idea to type it into eBay, you can just about buy anything on there except your Mom & Dad back, wish I could do that
. But yes! There was one seller who had trees. I bought two dormant trees, one for my friend & I. Now my question is, how do these trees reproduce? And what care requirements to give it a good start? Yes, she has one, but it was started long before her birth. She's 60 & I'm 58, so the tree is a lot older than us.
Donna, The Hummingbird Hillbilly from Hummingbird Hill