{"id":539,"date":"2016-05-15T14:56:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T12:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harsmann.com\/blog\/?p=539"},"modified":"2020-04-13T14:03:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T12:03:31","slug":"magnolia-in-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/2016\/05\/magnolia-in-memoriam\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnolia in Memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"

…or how you should also\u00a0use that fancy camera in your pocket to snap pictures of the things you take for granted.<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the special\u00a0things about our\u00a0house when we bought it was\u00a0a big, old magnolia tree, standing in the front garden facing the street. It must have been planted only a few years after the house was build and whenever I am working the garden I would get compliments about\u00a0the tree\u00a0and be asked to please never fell the tree.<\/p>\n

The Tree<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In early spring:<\/p>\n

\"Magnolia<\/a>
Magnolia Tree – April 11, 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In bloom:<\/p>\n

\"Magnolia<\/a>
Magnolia Tree – April 27, 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The End<\/h3>\n

Every time the tree was complimented and people told me to please never fell the tree I would reply that there was no plans of removing the tree. \u00a0Well, no plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength <\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>, and in last November came snow and lots of it. There were broken trees all around, in our garden also.<\/p>\n

The morning after:<\/p>\n

\"Magnolia<\/a>
Magnolia Tree – November 22, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And after the snow melted away:<\/p>\n

\"Magnolia<\/a>
Magnolia Tree – November 25, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Looking at the damages, we decided that the right thing to do was to remove the tree – with such deep wounds it would be unlikely to recover and instead fall sick and in any case be in danger of breaking further apart in storms and snow:<\/p>\n

Wound on tree:<\/p>\n

\"Magnolia<\/a>
Magnolia Tree, damage – February 24, 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We called a gardener\u00a0and on Feruary 24 the job was done.<\/p>\n

Before:<\/p>\n

\"Magnolia<\/a>
Magnolia Tree – February 24, 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After:<\/p>\n

\"(no)<\/a>
(no) Magnolia, February 24, 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I did count year rings on the stub and there were about 50 as expected \u00a0(the house is from 1965).<\/p>\n

Now we are looking forward\u00a0and plan to start over with a new magnolia. Or perhaps a\u00a0crap-apple. Some good is to come out of this.<\/p>\n

Apart from being a story about how all good things come to an (maybe unexpected) end, this is\u00a0also\u00a0a reminder to make sure to photograph not only the new and unusual we see, but also the things we take for granted and believe will just be there forever.\u00a0When I was looking for photos for this post I was surprised to find very few of the tree in full bloom. Lesson Learned: also use that camera in the pocket to snap the unexceptional things we would still be sorry to loose.<\/p>\n

Related Posts<\/h3>\n

Garden Diary 2015<\/a><\/p>\n

Garden Diary 2016<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…or how you should also\u00a0use that fancy camera in your pocket to snap pictures of the things you take for granted. One of the special\u00a0things about our\u00a0house when we bought it was\u00a0a big, old magnolia tree, standing in the front garden facing the street. It must have been planted only a few years after the … Continue reading Magnolia in Memoriam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/20152211-Magnolia.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5WBL8-8H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harsmann.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}