I'm not sure how many magnolias I have here. I think these are both the same, but I don't have a matching set of flowers and fruit. I'd like to know what to call it. These are street trees in Vancouver's West End. They're deciduous. This tree, on Haro west of Denman, has flowers that I described as being about 8 inches in diameter. It has no fruits now. The flower photos are from 2008; the others are from today. This tree is on Haro at Cardero. I think it was planted at the same time as the first one, and I think that was in 2007 but it could have been the year before. I think I remember the flowers being similar. So I always thought they were the same. This one has some fruits.
This was answered right away, back when it was posted. I'm just completing the picture. Here are the flowers from the same 'Caerhays Belle' tree posted in the first posting (second set of photos), on Haro at Cardero.
"Complete" is relative. Though I completed the picture for this Magnolia 'Caerhays Belle' in the last posting, that was eight years ago. Now it's even more complete - definitely a show stopper, in spite of some obvious frost damage on the petals.
Not a question any more, just current photos of the Magnolia 'Caerhays Belle', same individual, in bloom now. I see it's only a week earlier in blooming than when I posted it four years ago and when it was posted as a youngster in 2008.
I guess I'm collecting my Magnolia 'Caerhays Belle' photos in this thread, at least of the ones in my neighbourhood. These are the trees I first posted for ID, here photographed today, March 5, 2026. In my files, my earliest in-bloom photos of this cultivar were on February 21, 2015, a young (and recently planted) tree also in my neighbourhood. Next earliest was from March 15, 2024. My latest photo of one of these in bloom was taken April 3, 2025, in a colder neighbourhood, and April 2, 2012, young trees in my neighbourhood. This is the first tree in this thread, on Haro west of Denman. The most open flowers are lowest on the tree; flowers at the top are not yet open. This tree on Haro at Cardero, three blocks away, was in the same first posting. Today, the most open flowers are at the top.
