What can be done about this difficult situation?

snasxs

16 years ago

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pineresin
16 years ago
Find a shopping mall or church or other place with a high roof that might be interested in taking it!

Resin
snasxs
Original Author
16 years ago
Resin, this is already a high roof. I guess a usual Baptist church will not work. It has to be a cathedral.

Do you mean that I cannot prune it properly Â so that it becomes short but fuller?

Can I leave it outside in my zone in winter?
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Lascatx - yeah, I kept trying to think of wAys to make it work, but shiny rough hewn beams just won't go with anything I want. The backstory is this house was built by a bachelor hunter builder who then got married and his wife didn't like it. So they built a new place. But it's in a nice neighborhood close to great achools and decent commutes for both me and DH. But some things he did were off. The kitchen backsplash is rough tumbled travertine...with mirrored tile diamond inset feature over the stove. I really wanted to build but DH loved this location, so the good news is I have a fairly healthy budget and DH's blessing to change it to how I want it. Tv is mainly used by the kids during the day. And there are windows on 3 sides of the room, so either way you're facing the windows. I watch 30 minutes of hulu at night. DH watches movies sometimes, but eventually would like to make a theater room in the basement. Olychick - good call on the darker grout! I would not have noticed that! Emmarene - you've touched on another issue. I don't know why, but he did some things differently in this room than the rest of the house. The wall color by itself may be ok, but they painted the trim an ugly color which looks to me like the color paint turns when someone smokes inside for many years. The rest of the house trim is very close to BM linen white, which is ok. But this trim (you can't see in photos really) is an ugly pee color. This is the family room trim color next to a bunch of strips I happened to have. Anyway, I really think I do want to move the tv. I think I would like it in an armoire or something so I could close it off. Or is that really dated looking? It doesn't have to be a huge tv. There is 82" on that wall between the windows. Maybe that could provide some toy storage as well.
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pineresin
16 years ago
OK, a cathedral, then!

Sorry, not prunable, nor hardy outdoors in zone 7/8 (it needs zone 10).

Resin
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
16 years ago
common name.. norfolk island pine ... tropical as far as i understand.. but google will help you define that ... or others here ... i don't think 7-8 rates tropical ....

i think you can get young ones for about 5 or 10 bucks.... and that is what i would do .. if i wanted one in my house .... been there.. done that.. moved on ...

i do NOT think it will rebud.. so if you cut off all the green .. it most likely will die ... you could cut down to the lowest branch .. and then train that branch to an upright ... but IMOpinion ... it will look really ugly for a long time ...

i like the idea of donating it ... if you can find somewhere ... otherwise.. all wood makes firewood ...

good luck

ken
MissSherry
16 years ago
This is why I only grow a few, select house plants. If you're unsuccessful, you've wasted time and money - if you're too successful, you have to give it away or put it outside where cold may get it or you run out of pots big enough! :(
Sherry
Fledgeling_
16 years ago
They have 20-30 foot tall specimens at the Mall of America in Minneapolis, in the indoor amusement park area.... these things do get to be too big, i understand it is really a tree 200 feet tall where it comes from. I would plant it outdoors in the shade in the spring, and let the frost have it at the end of the year. Assuming you have a place... you could always throw it out. But it will not bud if cut, sorry.
wisconsitom
16 years ago
A pretty common outdoor landscape plant in S. Florida. Hawaii too.

+oM
vicki7
16 years ago
If you have a place for this plant to stay outside during the summer, then hang on till then. Then, during the summer months, do some calling around to various charity organizations to see if they know anyone who would want it. Or if you have a way to post a free ad, you could advertise for someone to come take it, free of charge. I think eventually someone will want it, it just depends on how much time you want to put into finding it a home.
quirkyquercus
16 years ago
I'd kill for a tree that size. I've been looking for something other than ficus benjamina to grow indoors in my 2 story great room. I finally found a tree that was a decent size at a reasonable price only problem was the pot would not fit through the door. Put it on craigslist.
pinetree30
16 years ago
Lie it down.
texasredhead
16 years ago
Norfolk Island pines grow all over Hawai and get quite large.
quirkyquercus
16 years ago
If you coppice it you will then have two leaders for the price of one. Now won't that be neat?

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