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It’s the imported omamen-; tals that suffer from sudden cold. Perhaps through some sort of genetic memory they are still in the lands of their evolution: maybe around the Mediterranean Sea, Japan or some other place in the Orient. Whatever the origin, they have not been in the New World long enough to evolve defenses against the sudden cold winds of a Virginia spring.
So it is with the Magnolia solangeana, the tree with great pink flowers. It blooms so early that the pink petals are often doomed by frost to turn brown. I will choose our tough Virginia natives every time.
Only once have I seen a native tree nipped by a late April frost. This was in North Carolina many years ago. A plunging temperature at night turned new leaves of tulip poplars brown. They were singed by the cold and crumbled in my hand. Within weeks, the tree had put on a new show with leaves from back-un buds.
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