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Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture (Inc.)
Mark Jury receives the Plant Raisers Award for 2007 Mark Jury is one of this country’s foremost breeders of ornamental plants, and in recent times he has received international recognition for his...
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Magnolia Diary number 5, 19 August 2009
Click on the Magnolia diary logo above to see all diary entries Magnolia Felix Jury When Magnolia Felix Jury first flowered, it was pretty clear that Mark had taken the step that his father, Felix, had...
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Magnolia Diary number 7, 26 August 2009
Click on the Magnolia diary logo above to see all diary entries A short but fierce storm last night was a good reminder why we value firmer flowers and thicker petals in our magnolias. Nothing floppy...
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Tikorangi Notes – a blue sky day in Taranaki
Magnolias Black Tulip and Felix Jury on a blue sky spring morning in Taranaki, Monday August 23, 2010 We tend to take our blue as blue skies for granted here, especially in mid winter or early spring...
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Winter? Who says it is still winter? Tikorangi Notes: August 4, 2011
The first flowers opening on Magnolia Felix Jury this morning After a bitter cold couple of days last week and a frost which has done a relatively alarming amount of damage, this week it seems as if...
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Tikorangi Diary, September 9, 2011
Magnolia Felix Jury in its glory now Latest Posts: Friday 9 September, 2011 Back in business! Today sees the resumption of weekly series of posts, but this time first published in the Waikato Times. It...
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The story of the red magnolias
Vulcan to the left, Lanarth to the right Few people realise that the story of the red magnolias is a New Zealand story. Probably even fewer realise that when it comes to stronger colours in magnolias,...
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Garden Lore: Friday May 2, 2014
Garden Lore “Did you ever meet a gardener, who, however fair his ground, was absolutely content and pleased?…Is there not always a tree to be felled or a bed to be turfed?…Is there not ever some grand...
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Floral Skypaper – the garden in August
Magnolia Felix Jury Not for us the refinement of declaring we garden for foliage and form. Give us floral extravaganza, we say, and August obliges. In the deciduous magnolias, it is the reds that...
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The magnolia and the mountain
Magnolia campbellii in our park and Mount Taranaki I prefer not to leave a negative post heading my home page for long (for an update on That Matter, refer to the last paragraph here), so here instead...
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All the reds
Magnolia ‘Felix Jury’August belongs to the red magnolias here. They start flowering in July for us but peak this month with September leaning more to the pinks, whites and yellows. While others may...
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A touch of Tikorangi around the world
We are generally accustomed to seeing Jury plants growing in different parts of the world, though sometimes it generates a special thrill. A UK friend sent this photo of Magnolia Felix Jury in bloom at...
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Mark’s story
* as told to The NZ Rhododendron, the annual journal of NZRA Council and Pukeiti Trust Boad. December 2017. Photos are mine. Mark could perhaps be described as having chlorophyll running in his veins....
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The magnoliafication of our local town
Our flagship magnolia, ‘Felix Jury’ Back in our nursery days, we used to send our reject plants down to be given away, sometimes sold for just a dollar or two, at a local op shop that a good friend was...
View ArticleSpring is in the air ♫ ♫ ♫
With the rush of spring, comes a rising sense of urgency. This anxiety has yet to afflict Mark but I am feeling it. Opening the garden at the end of October takes planning. I have no idea what...
View ArticleOf weather, early magnolias, possums and rats
We have long assumed that the chewing out of young buds which then open to distorted blooms can be attributed to the pesky possums that Mark wages war on all year round. We certainly could have done...
View Article“His Majesty The King’s Coronation Collection”
It is a well-known fact that King Charles 111 is a very keen gardener and has been for a long time. We received confirmation this week that Mark’s Magnolia ‘Felix Jury’ was included in a collection of...
View ArticleMagnolia delight
I called in yesterday to ask their permission to share the photos and, with their usual generous spirit, they said ‘any time. Our garden is your garden’.... She commented that she thought the magnolias...
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