(05-10-2024, 11:34 PM)AlphaFrank75 Wrote:(05-07-2024, 11:27 PM)DanLaw Wrote: Cannot begin to relate how hateful magnolia trees are: stink like cheap prostitutes, shed leaves 24/7/365, the leaves are acidic and poison the ground where they land, the tree grows hideous ugly surface roots that make it weak to winds and impossible to walk under. Only the Southern Scrub Pine is uglier and more useless but at least it doesn't smell like a low rent bordello.
My grandmother, who lived in the midwest, loved Southern Mags. When they moved to KY in '58 after retirement to be with us, the first thing they did was to plant one in their small backyard. Twenty some years later I'm now mowing around that dang tree every week. Mulching mowers weren't a thing back then so your mower would just shoot the dropped leaves out the discharge chute because the leaves were tough enough to survive the blade. After both of my grandparents passed away the first thing my mother did was to cut that magnolia down.
At least the Southern Mags doesn't spread green pollen over everything for a whole month like the Scrub Pines do.
You captured it perfectly. Of all the places lived around the US and abroad, by far the US Southeast is the most unprepossessing; no natural beauty to speak of and the most invasive flora.