Came back inside and started writing a song to her....

Once in love with Edith,

always in love with Edith,

ever and ever, fascinated by her,

sets your heart afire to stay...

The words just came to me,..all I could come up with now,..will try to continue later ! :o) ( Only joking Mr Loesser ! )

Thanks Carol,...am not so familiar with most of the jewels you mentioned, but am sure they are very aromatic. The verse I printed was indeed from " Once in Love With Amy ",..as it immediately somehow popped into my mind as I observed Edith
this morning, in her last days of this years impressive flowering
performance ! She's going out with a bang for sure !

Somehow thought I'd be the only one on this site who recalled Frank's great hit of 1948 !

Time flies doesn't it ? Just so glad I discovered Florida when I did,..and of course my new friend Edith's faint, but one-of-a-kind fragrance ! LOL

I love that smell you are making me miss mine from my last house.

I feel your pain Glenn ! We both know why the magnolia blossom is the
state flower of both Louisiana and Mississippi don't we ? :o)

I bought this tree ( at around 16 ft tall ) 5 yrs ago this month, (not 9 1/2 yrs as stated above ), and had it delivered & planted by 2 guys using their truck's big crane,..the
root ball alone was humongous ! I originally wanted a Bracken's Brown
Beauty because IMHO, it was the most beautiful southern magnolia tree out there, mainly because it had denser and more symetrical foliage ! But this was the only one available in that size, at that particular time. Cost a bundle for the tree plus planting, so after it was in the ground, was a bit self critical
for not waiting around for a BBB to show up. However, a year or so
later I read an article that the Edith Bogue trees, although initially
not as dense with branches/ leaves, would start to get denser as it
grew. Sure enough, it is now, ( at over 21 ft tall ), just as compact, robust and symetrical looking as the best Bracken's Brown Beauty I have ever seen !

Minimum care required, just 7, 8 handfuls of 6 - 6 - 6 fertilizer 3 X a year & occasional watering whenever Mother Nature gets lazy. Couldn't be more satisfied, - being where it is, I see it all the time. Especially whenever I get into or out of my truck at this time of year, - just cannot help but smile. LOL

Lovely! The one in front of my apartment finally put out some blooms, although not nearly as many as last year. Between that and the four o'clocks, walking out in the evening and early morning was like walking into a fragrance garden.

Joe, I have never met a magnolia I didn't like. But I prefer the southern magnolia. The smell is just intoxicating

Yeah Deb and Glenn, couldn't agree wid youse guys more ! :o) This Edith
Bogue will continue into the summer with sporatic outbursts of the big
white blossoms, but nowhere near the profusion she now has on display !
A shame it's flower season is so short. But here I go again, another
impatient New Yorker wanting more ! You'd think I'd have learned my
lesson after watching ( a bajillion times ) that Oliver Twist movie !!!

Yeah, think instead I'll just count my blessings and smile through it
all,..and bottom line, Edith is still a good looking tree without any big, white flowers,..IMHO anyway ! ( smile )