Pavel's diary

I promised to wrote something about our holidays. Before we left our house, both M. grandiflora and M. sieboldii had flower buds, just ready to open. I was a bit sad that we are leaving them :-)

My sadness finished when we arrived to our hotel and I have had this tree just below our terrace at the hotel:


This tree had only one flower at the beginning of our vacation and I watched it very closely during all 10 days. On every breakfast, lunch or dinner, I had a chance to see nice images like this one:

Magnolia sieboldii one day later opened the only flower:




I have never seen a flower like this! So magic and so close. It is so exciting. Three days ago, I was still in the middle of Mediterranean Sea and it was waiting. Yay!

My Magnolia sieboldii was damaged by early May frosts, all leafs were frozen. Now it is back with nice foliage and now even with its first flower bud opening (thanks goes to Magnolia God that it waits for our return from vacation (I'll add one more Magnolia blog about the vacation soon):

Except from Magnolia sieboldii, there is yet another Magnolia in the flower bud phase.

Magnolia grandiflora 'Preacox' has three flower buds. It will bloom in the next weeks.





These weeks I spend more time on magnolias than on e.g. OpenOffice.org due to Oracle inactivity (the lack of proper communication from the is terrible).

Magnolia sieboldii's leaves died in the early May, because of very low temperatures (-5 degrees C here, USDA 6). New leaves are now slowly coming and even the first flower bud:




Let's see how the full flower will look like.