[size=10]Disclaimer: Owning a Promise Tree does not guarantee beautiful school girls, suddenly showing up at your door step, asking for help on their day to day concerns. Magical wish granting or confessions of true love, are no more effective than other mundane trees. Promise Trees need gardening attention or could die. There’s also this annoying pest called a Japanese Beetle, and they will swarm like bees to honey on this sucker, munching on every other flower in the neighborhood to boot. Also those pink little petals leave one HELL of a mess, and the neighbors will probably bitch about it getting on their lawn and/or cars.[/size]
Depends where you live. Eastern US coast? Infestation out the ying-yang. Middle of the country? Not so bad.
It’s like the toad problem in Australia and Guam: no natural predators. In Japan it’s just another bug.
Kinda makes me wonder, why they can’t bring a pretty Japanese bird that eats the beetles, into the US… like a Sekirei. No… not like the anime… although that would be good too. :o
We have some of those trees at the community college I was attending. They were a gift, and are part of the reason of how the visits by young women from Yonezawa Women’s Junior College started. (As some of you may remember, I’ve talked about being a conversation partner during the times they’ve come the past two years.)
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