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ruby red grapefruit tree

Ruby Red Grapefruit (Citrus paradisi 'Ruby Red') is a very showy variety that offers incredible, well-balanced pink flesh. Make a sunny spot in your yard work hard for you and your family.

In fall and winter, beautiful round fruit hangs on the tree in clusters that resemble grapes. These pale yellow orbs are blushed with pink. Inside, the sweet flesh is juicy and can range from pink to red.

Beautiful, Fragrant Spring Flowers

• Small Tree or Large Hedge

• Blooms a Bit Later Than Other Magnolias

• Full Sun

• Long-Lasting

• Reddish-Purple Tulip-Shaped Blooms

• Hardy & Adaptable

• Care-Free

• Attractive Foliage

• Specimen Plant or Privacy Hedge!

Pro tip

This vigorous tree should be planted in full sun and given well-drained soil for best results. If you have poorly drained soil, you'll need to improve the conditions. Mound up soil to a height of 18 inches and plant into that mound.

Better to plant Grapefruit too high and mulch up to make up the difference, than to bury the root crown too deep in the soil. Mulch after planting to a depth of 3 inches, spread to 3 feet outside the canopy. This will keep the root system nice and cool, and cut down on surface evaporation in hot climates.

Ruby Red Grapefruit trees can be grown and maintained in containers. Size up gradually to maintain the preferred size.

Jane- X Magnolia

Jane Magnolia for Smaller Yards

The beautiful Jane Magnolia tree (Magnolia x 'Jane') is prized for its abundant, long-lasting reddish-purple blooms, fragrance and showy color. Plant them as a hedge along your house or as a single accent at the edge of a patio planting bed.

Jane gives you all the fabulous features you love, without having to make a commitment to a lot of space or care. You'll adore the 8-9 inch, tulip-shaped flowers of purple with white centers, appearing in late spring, prior to its leaves. It will keep reblooming here and there throughout the season.

This is a hardy plant. You won't have to fuss over it in order to enjoy its performance. The fuzzy covers on the buds protect them from frost damage, protecting the delicate Magnolia blooms. It will start making some smaller leaves just as the flowers begin to show color.

Attractive, 6-inch leathery, dark-green leaves cover the Jane for summer. The leaves turn a lovely copper-yellow in the fall. Jane Magnolia is a deciduous plant that will drop its leaves in fall.

Magnolia Jane is one of the "Little Girl" series of hybrids developed in the 1960s. Live in a cold climate? Jane starts blooming a bit later in the early spring than other Saucer or hybrid Magnolias, which protects the beautiful, cup-shaped blooms from late frost. This is wonderful news for gardeners in growing zones 4 - 6.

Why wait? Get started with your order and start enjoying this lovely shrub or small tree.

How to use jane magnolia in your garden

This beauty will be a standout in your garden, no matter how you choose to use it.

How to Use Jane Magnolia in the Landscape

The Jane has a compact appearance. You can prune it to fit a smaller space in your flower bed if you like, or allow it to reach its full potential size in a hedge. It is versatile, and Jane plants can be used as either trees or shrubs.

Plant this carefree Magnolia and you'll soon understand why it's such a sought-after landscape accent. Jane Magnolia is a bit more refined, staying slightly smaller in the landscape, which might make it more suitable for either side of a front entrance.

If you'd like a standout flowering screen, try to plant your Jane Magnolia in a slightly zig-zagging row a bit less than 4 feet apart. They'll grow together and form a continuous garden wall. What a wonderful sense of ornamental privacy in your landscape! 

After all, smaller, lower-branched plants make fantastic screening near your patio for some welcome privacy from the neighbors. And with those incredibly large flowers, which start out looking like big purple tulips that are born on the tips of each branch, why not choose a Magnolia?

Because the flowers keep coming,you'll have armloads of huge, colorful flowers to bring inside all season. Don't forget to include some of the dark foliage in your cut flower arrangements!