My mom's about to sell the house I was born in. I'm ok with the separation anxiety issues....except for one thing.
My family moved into the house when my mother was pregnant with me. In the process, they hired a sweet old Italian immigrant gardener to transplant some bushes from their old garden. One day, as this guy did one of many drives back and forth between the two properties, he spotted a baby white pine growing along the side of the road. He said that he felt that the pine called out to him and asked him to take it with him. He fell in love with it. And he stopped the car and dug up the tree and planted it in the new yard. And I was born immediately afterwards.
As a very small child, I was traumatized by an experience of being pushed into a pine tree - the stiff needles stuck into my skin. It gave me a fear of trees. But then someone introduced me to the white pine, with its soft needles. And I fell in love with it.
We both grew up, the tree and I, and though i'm not terribly superstitious or "woo woo" in any way, I've long had the feeling that the tree has some level of consciousness and is aware of me. I only heard the story of the gardener many years later, by the way. And everyone else I've shown the tree has also fallen in love with it. It's an amazing tree, what can I say?
The white pine is now quite tall and fully mature (I'm tall, too, though a bit less mature). And I'm wondering: what do I do, re: the sale of the house?
- try to befriend the people who move in, so I get visitation rights
- try to grow a branch from the tree somewhere else
- get someone to transplant a very large and mature white pine.
I make good money, and could afford to dump $$$$ into extreme solution #3....if it's even a practical option. I don't know anything about trees, though. IS it practical? Is #2 practical? If so, can anyone offer detailed advice (or point me to some)?
thanks!