Magnolia virginiana australis 'Woodlanders Evangeline' prophouse-on-the-horizon and will settle happily into

and will settle happily into an ordinary garden given steady moisture

a lean sunny border

and hybridizes freely wherever the two ranges touch

A close relative of the native loblolly bay (Gordonia lasianthus)

a natural for xeriscaping and low-water gardens

Magnolia virginiana australis 'Woodlanders Evangeline' prophouse-on-the-horizon and will settle happily into'Woodlanders Evangeline' is our own selection of the southern, evergreen sweetbay magnolia, Magnolia virginiana var. australis, chosen for the qualities that make a sweetbay worth growing: glossy evergreen foliage, a shapely habit, and the clean, lemon sweet fragrance for which the species is loved. Sweetbay is native across the moist ground of the eastern United States, and in the South grows into a graceful evergreen tree rather than the shrubby,