My Florida Garden: Will This Magnolia Survive and Thrive?

A garden is more than decoration or staging or investment. There is a saying: A bottle of wine will bring you happiness for an hour. Marriage will bring you happiness for a year. And, a garden will bring you happiness for a lifetime.

I don't particuarly agree with the first two statements. A bottle of wine will make me happy for more than an hour and my marriage has been happy for all these years. However, the last statement is certainly true. A garden is a place of pleasure.

For the most part, I stay with indiginous or tropical flowers and plants, but once in awhile I experiment. The soil on may be a bit salty for my current charge, but I am hoping for the best. In March, I planted a small Magnolia root. If my transplant is successful and it adapts to our hot Florida sun, I will have a Magnolia Tree.