Imagine coming around the corner and seeing this magnolia tree in full bloom! In early March! It is a Magnolia ‘Caerhays Belle’, apparently a cross between M. sargentiana var. robusta and M. sprenger ‘Diva’. Oregon State University’s Landscape Plants says the cross was developed at Caerhays Castle, Cornwall, England, and introduced into North America in 1972. This particular tree was planted in 1999.
So I went looking. Caerhays Estate has a lovely website flush with photographs