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Free Tree! Kind of a funny story
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Posted by darkbeauty_k 9 (My Page) on Fri, May 13, 05 at 5:22
| My parents' landlord was cutting down tree's. My dad decided to use the wood for fence posts for a temporary fence. He shaved a point into the small trunk and stuck it in the ground, used a horseshoe nail to run some wire through it.
Fast forward a year later.. there are branches coming from the ground with leaves on them. The silly tree took root and was growing.. upside down...
lol.. I thought it was pretty cool. |
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RE: Free Tree! Kind of a funny story
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| I got a free 8-foot ficus tree last year, but it's more of a pathetic story. Our neighbor at the time was driving his van in downtown Cincinnati when he saw city workers changing out some large planters to a more fall-like theme. He asked what they were going to do with the ficus trees they were removing. They were going to throw them out!! They were all huge and gorgeous. The workers said he could have as many as he could fit in his van, which turned out to be six. He let us have one since they were free to him. Unfortunately, our cat (who was small kitten when we got the tree) really likes it, so we're hoping it makes it until we can move it outside in a few weeks! LOL. I shudder to think what other stuff the city has thrown away. I wish I could be there to rescue them! |
RE: Free Tree! Kind of a funny story
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| Interesting. My dad's cats love to climb their indoor ficus trees also. |
RE: Free Tree! Kind of a funny story
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| Years ago I worked for one of those plant companies that keeps the plants in the nice containers inside banks, malls, hospitals, offices, airports, etc. We would change out the 'color' (blooming) plants every few weeks, and the 'green' plants every few months unless they got ratty. Most of them? Thrown away. We were not supposed to take them home or give them to anyone; they had to go in the dumpster back at our main office. I admit I ended up swiping quite a few myself, yes I admit it. Got one of those yellow kalanchoes years ago when they first came out; we now have scads of them throughout the family. There was an office of what was obviously mafia, who wanted to maintain a 'front'; we were seldom ever able to get into their offices to water, so the plants were all changed out every few weeks. I got a few beautiful ficus trees and a fishtail palm that way. Often, in the malls, we would find empty spots in the islands where people would just walk off with plants, especially the bromiliads. |
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| It amazes me what people throw away. At the garden center alone, I've gotten a rose bush, a bougainvillea, a large corn plant, a tray of mums, an avocado tree, a heavenly bamboo, three orchids, and lots of cuttings and annuals that are doing well so far. All stuff that was being tossed. I've gotten lots of stuff off of trash piles on yard waste days. |
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| This past fall visiting a quaint port town I noticed that the stores emptied all their window boxes into a compost pile in the town main parking lot. It was full of various perenial plants. I loaded up on pigsqueak (14 of them) for a shady area of my garden, all bloomed early spring for me and the neighbors wanted to know were I bought my beautiful plants. I would have taken more but DH was mortified that I was picking trash in the daylight! Rich people and city/town planters gotta love them for their trash! LOL |
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