Jane Magnolia
Magnolia ‘Jane’ · a late-blooming purple magnolia
A compact, cold-hardy magnolia with fragrant, tulip-shaped reddish-purple flowers on bare branches in mid-spring, weeks later than most magnolias, so late frosts spare them more often. It suits a small garden or patio and takes clay, heat and pollution. Its fleshy roots hate moving, so plant it for keeps.
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- Mature size
- 12 × 9 ft
- 4 × 2.7 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 4a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
- Blooms
- Apr–May
Jane Magnolia at its mature size
A mature Jane Magnolia grows 10 to 15 feet tall and 5 to 12 feet wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension, The Tree Center.
Through the year
What Jane Magnolia looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Dormant · Dec–Mar
Bare smooth gray stems with large fuzzy flower buds at the tips.
In flower · Apr–May
Upright red-purple tulip-shaped flowers, white inside, on branches just leafing out.
In leaf · Jun–Oct
Large glossy dark green elliptic leaves, no flowers.
Fall · Nov
Dull yellow-brown, muted.
Photos
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Growing Jane Magnolia
- Grows well in
- The Northeast and the Midwest.
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Good for
- Hedge, small space, specimen, and fragrant
- Leaves
- Drops its leaves in winter
- Native to
- Garden hybrid
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Jane Magnolia, that’s about 9 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Jane Magnolia in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other magnolias
Jane Magnolia
Sweetbay Magnolia
Little Gem Magnolia
Saucer MagnoliaAll drawn to the same scale.