We built a house here in Atlanta. A large two story house. Big enough to hold my husband and me. Our 3 children ages 5 and 6 and 14. Also my mother lived with us so that made 6 of us.
We had the yard landscaped and because I had grown up loving the huge magnolias on Prince Avenue in Athens, Georgia near where I lived; my trees of choice were magnolias.
We had 6 magnolias planted. They were about 6 feet tall. They grew and thrived, growing to a height of about 60 feet before we downsized and sold our house some 25 years later.
Each spring the magnolias were filled with lovely white blossoms which started out as large cone shaped buds; beautiful in their own way.
It was difficult to leave our nest but it was time to move on and simplify.
I guess more than anything else about our house, I miss the stately 40 year old magnolias.
5 comments:
Your climate is the perfect for magnolias. Here a little north they can turn out not so lovely if spring decides to go wet and cold.
With spring coming I can see what inspired this post!
Magnolias are gorgeous and to have had them on your property was something special.
Your magnolias were obviously very beautiful. My tree is very large but it has never given me anything but 4 or 5 brown tinged blossoms every season. I have no idea why that is.
I can understand why you hated to leave those beautiful magnolias...and their gorgeous scent....it's intoxicating. I'd love some in my yard.
They would be hard to leave. We lived in Charleston, SC, and planted live oak trees. They were beautiful. When we went back a couple of years after leaving the area, the owners had cut them down into ball sized leaves on a trunk. Awful.
And we can't have live oaks here in Pennsylvania. They just wouldn't survive the winters.
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