Glossy evergreen leaves and big, creamy-white blooms, a Southern classic that brings instant elegance and year-round presence
FEATURES:
- Large, creamy-white fragrant blooms that feel timeless and luxurious
- Evergreen foliage for year-round structure, screening, and deep green color
- Polished leaf undersides with warm brown tones for beautiful texture in the breeze
- Naturally upright, refined habit that works as a specimen or evergreen backdrop
- Excellent privacy tree when used along property lines or near outdoor living spaces
- Fall interest with rusty-brown leaf undersides and evergreen color that carries through winter
- Hand Selected; Fresh from the Grower
- Ships on our trucks because the size of the tree - does not fit in a box.
Bower & Branch Landscape Design Tip:
This tree doesn’t need much help, it’s already wearing a tuxedo. Keep companion plantings simple and elegant: deep greens, white blooms, and a few soft textures like ornamental grasses. And if you want the whole scene to feel “estate,” add one hardscape element nearby, a stone bench, a gravel path, or a simple garden urn, and let the magnolia do the rest.
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 7-9
- Mature Height: 30-50' tall
- Mature Width: 15-25' wide
- Exposure: Full Sun/Part Shade
- Spacing: 15-25' apart
Glossy evergreen leaves and big, creamy-white blooms, a Southern classic that brings instant elegance and year-round presence
FEATURES:
- Large, creamy-white fragrant blooms that feel timeless and luxurious
- Evergreen foliage for year-round structure, screening, and deep green color
- Polished leaf undersides with warm brown tones for beautiful texture in the breeze
- Naturally upright, refined habit that works as a specimen or evergreen backdrop
- Excellent privacy tree when used along property lines or near outdoor living spaces
- Fall interest with rusty-brown leaf undersides and evergreen color that carries through winter
- Hand Selected; Fresh from the Grower
- Ships on our trucks because the size of the tree - does not fit in a box.
Bower & Branch Landscape Design Tip:
This tree doesn’t need much help, it’s already wearing a tuxedo. Keep companion plantings simple and elegant: deep greens, white blooms, and a few soft textures like ornamental grasses. And if you want the whole scene to feel “estate,” add one hardscape element nearby, a stone bench, a gravel path, or a simple garden urn, and let the magnolia do the rest.
Growth Facts
- Hardiness Zone: 7-9
- Mature Height: 30-50' tall
- Mature Width: 15-25' wide
- Exposure: Full Sun/Part Shade
- Spacing: 15-25' apart
Why plant Victoria Southern Magnolia?
Victoria Southern Magnolia is the definition of evergreen elegance. It brings thick, glossy leaves that stay rich and green all year, plus those iconic, creamy-white blooms that look like they belong on a magazine cover. The flowers are large, fragrant, and unforgettable, the kind of bloom that makes you slow down in the driveway just to take it in for a second.
Even when it’s not blooming, it’s doing the heavy lifting: providing privacy, anchoring the landscape with strong structure, and adding texture with the warm brown undersides of the leaves. It’s classic, it’s confident, and it makes a home feel established in a way few trees can.
How to use Victoria Southern Magnolia in the landscape?
Plant it as a specimen tree where its evergreen canopy and summer blooms can be enjoyed from a porch, patio, or main window. It’s also an excellent privacy and screening tree, especially when planted in a staggered grouping to soften property lines and create a lush, enclosed feel around outdoor living spaces. In foundation plantings, use it to anchor a corner of the home and provide year-round structure, then layer in lower shrubs and perennials that won’t compete with its bold foliage. Give it room away from tight walkways and allow space for the mature canopy so the tree can develop a clean, natural silhouette.
Frequently Asked Questions
The blooms are creamy white and typically fragrant, with large, classic magnolia flowers that appear in the warm season.
Yes, it’s evergreen. Like many broadleaf evergreens, it will shed older leaves gradually throughout the year (often more noticeably in spring), while continually replacing them with new growth.
Pruning is usually minimal. If you need to remove dead, damaged, or crossing branches, do so after flowering or in late winter. Keep cuts selective so the tree maintains its natural, full shape.