Product Description
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The Bracken Brown Magnolia’s compact pyramidal form features beautiful, large pure white flowers that make it an exceptional choice as an accent tree for your landscape.
The Bracken’s Brown Beauty Magnolia tree is a significant broadleaf evergreen magnolia cultivar with extensive winter hardiness. This plant produces large fragrant, cup-shaped, creamy white flowers that appear in late spring with sparse flowering throughout the summer.
Its glossy dark green leaves are green on top and rusty-brown on the undersides, lending a bi-color appearance to the foliage. The Bracken magnolia tree flowers will give way to spherical fruiting cone clusters that mature in the late summer growing season. At full maturity, it releases coated red seeds on slender threads perfect for birds to munch on.
Bracken Brown Magnolia Care
The Magnolia Grandiflora Bracken’s Brown Beauty tree thrives in full sun to partial sun and partial shade. It prefers rich well-drained soil but can tolerate very wet areas or drought. Slightly acidic soil is best but not required. Our most cold-hardy magnolia tree thrives in most of the United States USDA zones 5-9. The cold hardiness range is perfect for areas with colder winters!
This large tree can get up to 30-40 feet tall and up to 25 feet wide at full maturity. The Brackens Brown Magnolia growth rate is up to 1-2 feet per year making it a very fast-growing tree and perfect if you are looking for height fast. Bracken’s Magnolia has an upright growth habit with a tall central leader.
Bracken’s Brown Beauty Magnolia Pruning
You may prune your magnolia tree when needed in early spring to shape it to the desired size. Bracken’s Brown Beauty Magnolia fertilizer will benefit the tree’s growth and health yearly.
This fragrant white flowering tree grows in all types of climates making it one of our favorite southern magnolias and favorite shade trees.
Have the tree shipped directly to your home in our secure packaging. The root systems are well established; we do not ship bare root.
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Check out our Magnolia Grow Guide for more information on planting and growing Magnolia Grandiflora.
Magnolia grandiflora 'Bracken’s Brown Beauty'
- Large white flowers
- Fragrant
- Cold hardy
- Evergreen
GB (verified owner) –
Great trees! Ordered 1 tree as a test run, then 2 more because I was happy about the results of the first tree. All 3 tree are between 3&1/2 – 4 feet tall, as advertised. Pot size is about 10inches by 10inches, its about a 3gallon sized pot/rootball, with roots starting to poke out the bottom. They did a good job packing the trees and shipping was fast. Saved about 100% versus buying from local nursery. Would do business again
Symona –
Ordered the Bracken Brown on Tuesday for delivery on Saturday. On Saturday I received the perfect tree, perfect height, nice and full! Hope to order more in the near future
C. Gerber –
Precocious! I planted a tiny 10″ Brakens in 2013 that I purchased thru Jackson & Perkins ($50!). It had 1 bloom at 1.5′ in 2014, 2 blooms 2015, 4 blooms 2016 at 3′. Then a week ago a snow came and broke it completely in half. Recommend staking! Definitely replacing thru Perfect Plants!
Brandt Frische (verified owner) –
Ordered 2 of these trees! They are absolutely beautiful and perfect just like the name of the company describes. I will be planting these out in the spring and am sure they will thrive. I will definitely be ordering more plants in the future!
Ashley Peterson –
We bought one tree as a centerpiece for our circle driveway. My husband wanted the largest tree they sold. The large tree was heavy and not very easy for an old man to get planted. Be mindful if you order the large trees, they will be taller than you when you unpack them. Tree has been planted 1 week and looks nice.
Ashley Peterson
PJSteele (verified owner) –
Over the years, I have always loved Magnolias & grew up down south where they are abundant but in my adult life my husband was in the Military & we moved around a lot and ended up settling up north. I have tried buying southern Magnolias & hardening them myself by keeping it in the garage over the first winter. I have also purchased from other companies but Perfectplants has the most beautiful Magnolia trees that I have seen shipped, ever! I almost cried when I opened the box & there were about 4 blooms on the tree already!!! The tree was taller than I expected & full of leaves – I felt like it was my birthday or something !! Plus I always get some discount from Perfectplants, so I couldn’t be happier. I’ve had lots of disappointments with shopping online for plants but not with Perfectplants, they have earned a life long customer!
Perfect Plants (store manager) –
Thank you so much for your kind words! We really appreciate your honesty and loyalty to our company! Please let us know if we can ever help with any future plant purchases or if you have any questions. And do not hesitate to ask for a discount. We would be overjoyed to help you continue to grow your garden <3
Laura Greer –
Order our two trees in Spring of 2018 and they came with blooms. Reminds me of our travels thru the south. Small point to make for others, the Bracken Brown is very cold hardy, so they will grow at our Tennessee home.
bdurbin (verified owner) –
Purchased 7 of these trees in both sizes. The larger ones are true to size and all come in very healthy conditions. The BB version, I feel, is a better all round tree as it can handle the colder temps, and for us here in Central TX, the occasional hard freeze which have stunted the Little Gems I have. Overall, great deal, great trees, and Perfect Plants is a solid company to deal with. I continue to spend entirely too much money with them (shh, don’t tell the wife), and they never disappoint on the quality.
Perfect Plants (store manager) –
Hi Brent,
Thank you very much for being such a loyal customer to Perfect Plants. We are happy to help with any of your magnolia tree needs, questions, or concerns. They sure do make beautiful landscaping trees and we are glad you received them all in great condition. It is what we strive for!
Elliot –
Wonderful tree! Easy to purchase with My Perfect Plants! Great customer service and easy to plant. Has been growing well.
Irwin –
Thanks for my beautiful Bracken’s Brown Beauty Magnolia. I am in love! Fast shipping!
Michelle T –
Received this tree for Mother’s Day. It is so gorgeous!! Best gift ever!!
Perfect Plants (store manager) –
Hi Michelle, thank you so much for your kind review of the Bracken’s Brown Magnolia. We are so happy you are pleased with your new magnolia tree and hope you enjoy the blooms for years to come :)
John Hastings (verified owner) –
Extremely healthy and well-packed tree received last fall in time for establishing before winter. Survived zone 6 with no winter burn, although did wrap with a blanket during 2 coldest weeks. Bloomed the following spring with 2 large blooms! Already put on 8″ of growth in first summer and will probably get a few more before fall. Great plant!
Perfect Plants (store manager) –
Hello John, that is amazing! We are so happy to hear your Bracken’s Brown Beauty magnolia is doing well after the first year. It is only up from here. We hope you enjoy your magnolia tree’s blooms for many years to come!
Mark K. (verified owner) –
Excellent Packaging. Perfectly formed tree for a 3 gallon container
Perfect Plants (store manager) –
Hey Mark! We are so happy you are pleased with your new Brackens brown magnolia! Happy planting!!
Jennifer (verified owner) –
My tree was delivered quickly and was carefully packaged to make it through the shipping process without any damage! I received a beautiful, healthy tree and couldn’t be happier! Thank you!
Perfect Plants (store manager) –
Hi Jennifer, thank you for your feedback on our Bracken Brown Beauty Magnolia tree. We are so glad you love it!
Ellen Gibson (verified owner) –
The tree is doing fantastic. The leaves are so beautiful. So far so good
Perfect Plants (store manager) –
Hi Ellen, thank you for your kind words on our Bracken’s Brown Beauty Magnolia. We are so glad you love it! :)
Ryan (verified owner) –
The tree I received was in amazing condition and well within the 3-4ft range as promised. I was actually pleasantly surprised by how great everything was. I would definitely recommend.
Perfect Plants (store manager) –
Ryan, thank you for reviewing our Bracken’s Brown Magnolia tree. We appreciate your business and are glad you love your new tree.
Craig Bolton (verified owner) –
First purchase but it’ll be the first of many! I opened the box and found this perfect specimen inside! Helpful, friendly folks to deal with- I’d rate this transaction as a “6” if I had the option!
Perfect Plants (store manager) –
Craig, thank you so much for your review of our Bracken’s Brown Magnolia Tree. What a nice compliment. We so appreciate your business and are glad you love your new tree! :)
Craig Bolton (verified owner) –
I couldn’t have received a more perfect specimen. Friendly, helpful folks to deal with- I’d rate this purchase as a “6” if that option was available!
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Karen (verified owner) –
So far our Bracken Brown Beauty is doing well. She’s happy and healthy, and has a lot of growing to do. So far so good!
Pamela Marchesano (verified owner) –
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Was this review helpful to you?Anne T. (verified owner) –
Our magnolia arrived safely and look quite healthy and hearty. We planted them two weeks ago and they look strong and happy.
Perfect Plants (store manager) –
Hi Anne, thank you for reviewing our Bracken’s Brown Magnolia and that it arrived safe and healthy. Enjoy your new tree!
Anonymous (verified owner) –
Nice healthy plant.. and came at time they said it would. Size was great and what I ordered.
Perfect Plants (store manager) –
Thank you so much for leaving feedback on our Brackens Brown Magnolia!
Jerry (verified owner) –
I have purchased many trees online and this is by far the best place to buy them. They produce the best looking trees and I have purchased several different types from them. They all came packaged very well and no leaf loss. I am more then pleased with this company and will do all my future tree and shrub purchasing from them. Thank you Perfect Plants for good quality control.
Perfect Plants (store manager) –
Hi Jerry, thank you for reviewing our Bracken’s Brown beauty Magnolia tree. We are so glad you love your new tree! Happy planting!!