Purchasing A Greenhouse Kept Maple...help For The Cold?

W3rdSmyth

My fault, I should have been more clear in my earlier posting.

This window has a board screwed into it from the outside, and is bricked up and painted on the inside. I have lived in this apartment for several years, and it was that way when I moved in. So, the window is no longer a window, and the window well had a board with a 2x4 fram thrown over the top of it to cover it to keep people from falling into it is my guess. So, I'm free and clear to use the window well on my patio as I wish.

Also I found out more about the maple tree. It comes from Takayama (farms, nursery, no idea) out in California. When the tree was purchased, the Takayamas were apparently about 80 years old so it is unknown whether the place it came from even still exists. The tree was approximately four years old when it was potted up and it is now approximately 17 years old. It was purchased just after potting and has lived on the back shelf of a greenhouse since then. The greenhouse owner tells me that it is just a standard dwarf Japanese maple (Acer Palmatum?). After my discount and such, I look to pay approximately $150 for this tree, which I think seems fair.

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Adam_MA

Any pictures of the tree?

Adam

rockm

Hmmm, you're not really free and clear to do what you want with something that's not yours.

The window is part of the building property. Regardless of its current apparently neglected conditions, it's not safe to assume it will stay that way.

I would not store my tree in such a place, as the building manager, or whoever the building hires to do maintenance, is likely to throw your tree out with no regard for who owns it. If it's left in that place, you can bet anyone cleaning up isn't going to ask around about who it belongs to.

At the very least, I'd ask building management if such a storage situation is OK.

W3rdSmyth

Again, this is where pictures of my situation would help show where I'm coming from.

My patio is completely enclosed on all sides by a six foot high picket fence and has a locking gate that is also six foot high picket. There is no grounds maintenance on the patios in the complex, the patios are 100% the responsibility of the tennant unless a repair is requested by the tennant. 24 hours notice must be given before anyone can enter my apartment to perform any work at all, which includes my patio. Every leasing agent and maintenance worker knows me on sight, and by name and the head property manager has spent time on my patio with me admiring my bonsai. This is a 400 unit complex that I have lived in for 10 years, it's just this apartment I've lived in for only two.

I can certainly appreciate the concern with having people fiddle with my stuff, but I feel very confident that my use of the window area will be fine. I was more concerned with will it do the job of protecting a maple in my area for winter, and I believe it will do the job until I purchase a house the year after next. The house will get a greenhouse, and then I won't have to macguyver things as much anymore. hahaha