Magnolia George Henry Kern

George Henry Kern magnolia is a breeding success from the USA. It is a cross between magnolia stellata and magnolia lilifolia Nigra The result is a magnolia with soft pink, 8-petalled, fragrant flowers in late April. It may repeat flowering with a few flowers in July but they do not open

entirely since they do not like summer heat. The deciduous leaves are fresh green, narrowly to widely elliptic and densely cover the whole plant when in leaf. It grows slowly into a compact, widely pyramidal,extremely floriferous shrub, reaching maturity in about 20 years.

This magnolia was developed by my Carl Edward Kern Sr. originally from Horn, Switzerland. He named his new discovery after his son, George Henry Kern, a U.S. Navy Office, who was killed in a terrible train wreck when returning to duty during World War II. This piece of interesting information behind the name origin was supplied by his son David E. Kern