‘Susan’ is an upright medium-sized deciduous shrub with deep reddish-purple buds opening in mid spring to fragrant, cupped flowers with usually 6 tepals, red-purple outside, pink within.

Height and Spread: 4 x 4m.

Position: Full sun to partial shade

Soil: Moist but well-drained, acid to neutral

Flowering season: spring

Uses: Architectural, Courtyard, Cottage Garden, Beds and Borders

Magnolia can be deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs, with large, showy, often fragrant flowers, often opening before the leaves, and sometimes followed by colourful cone-like fruit

‘Susan’ is a bushy, upright shrub with large mid-green leaves and narrow goblet-shaped, fragrant purple-red flowers in mid-spring.