Don't you just love a Magnolia Tree in the Spring? |
So we closed on the house and within a month or two settled our tree in the front yard. Magnolia trees grow very slowly and I'm not certain how old it was when we purchased it but it was about 6 feet tall at the time. It's been in the ground here for 8 years now. It didn't bloom it's first couple of years because the children in the neighborhood would come up into our yard and steal it's leaves off! But now we have a nice picket fence and the tree has been blooming every year since. I call the blooms dinner plate size, pie plate size also comes to mind. Surprisingly my neighbor has the same exact subspecies and her tree has been in the ground for about 20 years. They are no match for the Beauties you see in Walt Disney World, but they are pretty and very Florida in their own right.
What does Spring make you want to do? Perhaps you're a Spring Cleaner? I think we all are to some extent. For me I want to root up the flower beds and plant something lovely. It's so hot here in the summer flower choices have to be carefully selected or else they wont make it through the summer, which is the case with many of the beautiful spring flowers in our nurseries right now.
3 comments:
we have a couple of magnolias that the neighbors hate because the leaves travel, but I don't care. The one out front is about 25 years old and began it's life with os as a 2 foot tall sapling with a diametyer of about 3/4 of an inch. It is now very tall probably 25 feet but has to grow talol to fight for sunshine around the oaks. It was a gift from a friend who just wan't it out of his yard. Same story different friend for the one in the back yard. It came here less than 20 years ago, but is taller and much fuller than the one in front. It sits in the middle of the yard in what used to be wide open space. It was given to us to replace trees we lost as a result of Hurricane Opal in 95. I think ours are the same variety as yours, since the leaves are similar and not the ones that look pleated to me. I truly hope that you enjoy the wonderful scent and gorgeous look of the blossoms as much as I do.
I love magnolias, but wish the flowers lasted longer.
Your magnolias are beautiful. Ours are loosing leaves right now and they have lovely flowers.
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