In my previous Blog I looked at some beautiful small NATIVE evergreen and flowering trees that are ideal for urban landscapes. NOW, here's a small sample of flowering EXOTIC trees that really pop in the Australian garden...
Lagerstoema indica 'Natchez' is a broad canopied, pendulous Crepe Myrtle growing to 6 - 8m high and 5 metres wide. With spectacular clusters of white flowers in Summer, dark green leaves that turn red-bronze in Autumn and smooth bark mottled pinkish brown and grey, Natchez
[Pictured Left] provides year round interest.
Radermachera 'Kunming' or Dwarf Tree Jasmine is a small tree from Kunming, Yunnan, South China with lovely lush dark green semi-pendulous foliage. The delicate, papery pink yellow-throated flowers are beautifully fragrant and used in village pharmacy as relaxant and aphrodisiac. Flowers best in warm, full sun position protected from frost.
Terrific for a teeny space, Michelia X 'Bubbles' grows to just 5m high and has an upright pyramidal form. With glossy deep green foliage, 'Bubbles' gets it's name from the white, cup shaped flowers that appear prolifically along the stem with from fur-covered buds. A real sweetie.
[Pictured Left Michelia X 'Bubbles']
With it's proliferation of pink, tulip shaped,10-20cm fragrant blooms on bare boughs in spring, the deciduous Magnolia soulangeana is a stunning tree to 7-9m high tolerating a broad range of conditions from cool temperate to the sub-tropics.
[Pictured Below Magnolia soulangeana]
Originating from China,
Banana Magnolia or Michelia skinneriana is a small tree with cold tolerance that really packs a punch with it's delicious banana scent wafting from small yellow, cup shaped flowers. Glossy elongated mid green foliage responds well to pruning making it ideal for a formal or informal screen also.
[
Pictured Right Magnolia
skinneriana when grown clear-trunked is a lovely small tree with an intoxicating banana scent.]
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