Here’s a magnolia tree I saw in town:

Magnolia Tree in Town

Talk about beautiful! I was really impressed with it’s fullness and size. There are some I’ve seen that are just as big but have hardly any flowers.

Here’s my magnolia tree:

My Magnolia

Mine’s obviously younger. We planted it maybe the second year we lived here. It was just a stick then. Seriously. Ha.

So the other day we got caught outside by Neighbor Lady and as we stood there talking to her, she was asking us if the magnolia was a tree or a bush, or what. Well, duh, it’s a magnolia, it’s a TREE. “Oh, well then,” she says, “you should have cut off the lower branches when it was smaller.”

Uh, lady, mind your own magnolia!

Okay it’s just a small rant. I get tired of her telling us what to do, how to garden; especially when our plants are clearly thriving.

I wonder if she wonders why she hasn’t seen me since probably August 2007 or before, even…