The White House South Lawn, 1878.
Tree blocking left part of White House
Posted on 12/26/2017 12:02:57 PM PST by mairdie
The south facade of the White House will undergo a dramatic change this week: the historic Jackson Magnolia, a tree that has been in place since the 1800s, is scheduled to be cut down and removed. The enormous magnolia, one of three on the west side of the White House and the oldest on the White House grounds, extends from the ground floor, up past the front of the windows of the State Dining Room on the first floor and beyond the second-level executive residence. The tree has had a long and storied life, yet has now been deemed too damaged and decayed to remain in place.
Specialists at the United States National Arboretum were brought in by the White House to assess the Magnolia grandiflora, as it is specifically termed. According to documents obtained exclusively by CNN, the tree must be removed, and quickly, despite efforts to preserve it over several decades.
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For several months, at an undisclosed greenhouse-like location nearby, healthy offshoots of the tree have been growing, tended to with care and now somewhere around eight to 10 feet tall. CNN has learned the plan is that another Jackson Magnolia, born directly from the original, will soon be planted in its place, for history to live on.
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Tree blocking left part of White House
Trump colluded with the arborists this time.
You know that someone in the media will spin this somehow to slander him.
I am no “tree lover”, but I do appreciate looking at an elderly tree, and imagining the history it has lived through.
There was a an enormous, fat, decaying maple tree around here that was 350 year old, and it just finally died. You couldn’t stand in front of it and not realize it had been a sapling long before the American Revolution.
But everything does have its time.
CNN expresses more concern for the limbs of this tree than the limbs of babies chopped up for parts and sold to the highest bidder.
Magnolias are notoriously fragile; a tree that old is in danger of losing major limbs if they get a particularly nasty ice storm, resulting in damage to the building. Hopefully the replacement will be sited far enough away that it won’t pose a threat in the future.
At our old family farmstead in Grey County, Ontario, my great grandfather planted maple trees to line the long driveway up to the farmhouse in about 1908. We’ve had to recently cut some down and buzz them up for firewood, but I took a piece of the trunk of one for myself and had an artisan fix it up with sanding and varnishing work so you can count the rings, neat.
In two hundred years, the replacement trees will be huge.
What a trolling opportunity for the president. Can you imagine the rise president Trump could get if he personally took the chainsaw to this tree? Another great president has a famous story about cutting down a tree.
This would be epic if the president does it all Trumpstylin like
Maxine Waters: “IMPEACH TRUMP FOR MURDERING THE TREE!”
This is DJT colluding with the known slaver Jackson. Impeach Now!
“had a long and storied life, yet has now been deemed too damaged and decayed to remain in place.”
Could describe quite a few politicians!!!
Experienced,skilled,aborists (not sure what tree specialists are called) will either believe that the tree can be saved or that it cannot.
I would have had it made into a standing shuffleboard, and a shelf with a jar of pickled eggs and kielbasa, add a few brewskis into the mix,eh?
I have heard of thick forests, where each tree is somehow related to a “Mother Tree” or “Hub Tree”, producing an immense and sprawling organism that can cover acres of land.
One part will exchange nutrients with the other side, benefiting the whole.
Destruction or injury in one area of the offshoots is ‘communicated’ to all of the trees.
>>someone in the media will spin this somehow to slander him
My very first thought.
Same here.
Near my hometown, there was a gigantic lone cottonwood that was genuinely ancient when I first saw it. It was landmark enough that when you said "the big cottonwood out by..." the other person knew which one it was. It finally succumbed to the ravages of time a few years ago, and IIRC, they ring-dated it back into the 1800's... which isn't too shabby for a tree on that piece of prairie.
One of the things that surprises me is how young some trees actually are even though I had the impression that they are quite old. I have found aerial maps that show no trees where there is now a thick belt of woods containing trees I would swear date back to the early 20th Century, but they weren't there until the 1940's.
“Magnolias are notoriously fragile”
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We live in Chicago, and we recently took out several Cherry Blossoms (we re-arranged our property), which my wife loved. In any event, we plan on putting in more trees and our landscaper is telling us we want Magnolia’s instead. It sounds like you know a bit about trees, given our climate is one better than the other?
The first media reports are ALREADY blaming Melania for chopping down the tree, as if she wanted it cut down because it interfered with with her view.
I used to have a maple like that in my back yard. It was big when I was but a pup. The new owners cut it down. Would like to have counted the rings.
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