Yellow Magnolias to the fore

By Fiona Ogilvie
October 23 2016 - 4:30am
                 The engineered Magnolia "Elizabeth" has clear yellow flowers in early spring and is a rewarding tree to grow.
The engineered Magnolia "Elizabeth" has clear yellow flowers in early spring and is a rewarding tree to grow.

I first saw a yellow-flowering magnolia from a bus in Suzhou in China. I jumped up with excitement but the trees vanished before I could photograph them, leaving me with a vision of bare branches wreathed in goblet shaped, magnolia flowers in a colour I’d never dreamed existed.

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