'Claudia Wannamaker' Magnolia
When planted in lines next to brick walls, the Claudia Wannamaker Magnolia tree shades the buildings and reduces cooling costs. When planted in city boulevards or when lined along streets the Claudia Wannamaker Magnolia trees filter the air and are covered with dense leaves all year. For a cooling refreshing shade on a hot Summer day, The Claudia Wannamaker is a good landscape choice, and especially useful as a long flowering tree that is evergreen and fast growing. The seedpods at Magnolia trees are covered with brilliant red seeds that are eaten by wildlife birds and animals, and the limbs are a perfect nesting habitats' for wildlife birds and squirrels. If lower branches are not pruned on magnolia trees, the gardener can avoid the leaf raking backbreaking task, and the cooling shade during the Summer provides a wonderful respite. The huge white flowers of the Claudia Wannamaker tree bloom at an early age and emit a delightful sweet fragrance. Growing at maturity to 50 feet, the Claudia Wannamaker is an evergreen magnolia that grows into a pyramidal form and 50 to 60 feet wide. The low hanging limbs and dense leaf concentration can shelter and offer cover for wildlife animals such as deer and turkey.