Too far away and without enough detail to know for sure but it looks rather magnolia-like to me.

gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)

Thanks, now when you said it, it does look like a magnolia.

It's this balcony: Link to balcony

Maybe it's possible to have better view.

Do you perhaps have experience with it, how hardy it is in practice?

It looks reasonably Magnolia-like to me as well, but I couldn’t ID the cultivar from this distance and without flowers. Magnolias vary a fair amount in hardiness depending on cultivar. Regardless, if you are much colder than zone 6, growing in containers doesn’t work well for most plants because the roots get much colder than in the ground when the containers are so exposed to cold air on all sides, unlike roots in the ground that have more natural insulation.

where are you generally and what is your USDA growing zone? Are you planning to grow plants in a container or in the ground? The NYC area is zone 7, and potted plants there should be at least hardy down to zone 5 if they are likely to survive. So it might be one of the smaller, hardier magnolias like ‘Jane’.

NHBabs z4b-5a NH Thanks on the warning, I am in Europe, my city is labeled as 7b or 8a, so I try to select plants that are at least zone 6 hardy (because of containers).

You should be fine with a small hardy Magnolia, then. Some designers who post here are responsive about IDing plants, but a couple of folks asked about various plants in that design and there was no response from the designer.