My sister, who lives in Florida, just sent us a sympathy gift after losing my FIL a few weeks ago...a very nice and appreciated gesture BUT....

For reasons that escape me she sent us a southern magnolia "memory tree" which I am sure if beautiful however they have visited our home more than once, they know we have limited room for landscaping and do not have the room for a tree that requires 15' of space.

I am at a loss and dont wnat to sound ungratful but this sister in particular gets her feeling hurt at the drop of a hat so I need to figure out where to plants this friggin thing and what to tell her.

People never think about the future. My neighbor planted a tree that will have the tree span of 70', 2' off of the road on the street corner.

Plant it in a very large pot, it will grow much smaller and stay that way......bury the pot if you want even in the yard.......

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Originally posted by jimmy123x:
People never think about the future. My neighbor planted a tree that will have the tree span of 70', 2' off of the road on the street corner.

Plant it in a very large pot, it will grow much smaller and stay that way......bury the pot if you want even in the yard.......

Thanks for the advice, I will suggest tat to my wife. The only other option was to pissible plant it near my pool and I dont need to be picking leaves and seeds out of their on a weekly basis

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Originally posted by Kevmo:
...but this sister in particular gets her feeling hurt at the drop of a hat so I need to figure out where to plants this friggin thing and what to tell her.

That reminded me of the story of the Angel On Top Of The Christmas Tree. Late on the Night Before Christmas, when Santa was exhausted from all the work and had 60 trillion billion presents loaded on his sleigh to be delivered before dawn the next morning, the Angel brought him the Christmas Tree and said, "Santa, where do you want me to put this?"

Check and see if you can get permission to plant it in a local park. You may also be able to donate a bench near it in his memory.

Plant it in the cemetary in which he is buried along with a plaque stating the tree was planted in your FIL's honor.

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
Plant it in the cemetary in which he is buried along with a plaque stating the tree was planted in your FIL's honor.

We cremated him and he is currently residing in three urns, one with his wife and the other two with daughters.

We are reaching ot to family to see if anyone has room anywhere for this but in AZ we all have smalish yards that are already fully landscaped.

Swap or trade it for a Betty Magnolia which does not get as big and has white and purple flowers.

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Originally posted by 41:
Swap or trade it for a Betty Magnolia which does not get as big and has white and purple flowers.

Imight try that but she sent it from some online place in Florida

Just what I need on 12/23, more shit to do!

Soak the plant ball in Kerosene and just say it died.
You don't ever want that thing to take roots, unless you like to stumble over the roots it put on at lawn mower heights and the thing sheds old foliage 365 days a year.
Those hand grenade berries wreck your mower also.

I don't think they will ship until spring. It is too cold to ship trees across country. Find out the nursery and maybe they have a Betty Magnolia.

45 Cal is right about the Southern Magnolia.....or trash tree.

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Originally posted by Kevmo:
My sister, who lives in Florida, just sent us a sympathy gift after losing my FIL a few weeks ago...a very nice and appreciated gesture BUT....

For reasons that escape me she sent us a southern magnolia "memory tree" which I am sure if beautiful however they have visited our home more than once, they know we have limited room for landscaping and do not have the room for a tree that requires 15' of space.

I am at a loss and dont wnat to sound ungratful but this sister in particular gets her feeling hurt at the drop of a hat so I need to figure out where to plants this friggin thing and what to tell her.

I live in South Florida and I can't count the number of intermittent outages palms and/or trees like this cause because folks grow them directly under the primary. They're fine and beautiful when they're first planted but, none of these folks have the foresight to see that they will eventually grow up directly into the power line. You can already see that some have been killed by the primary losing the tops. You can certainly guarantee that after a good rain soak they start to flash to ground, eventually killing the palm. However, in the meantime it can reek havoc on folks on the feeder from the momentary outages and electronic devices and/or appliances. The power company is aware of these trees but do not have access to the backyards of these folks to cut them and pass it on to the customer to do what is necessary..