GARDENING GERRY DALY IN THE last week or so, a spectacular flowering tree has been drawing attention. If you live near the coast, you may have noticed the showy yellow flowers of the mimosa, but if ...

Pink mimosa (Albizia julibrissin) trees, also known as silk trees, are beautiful, drought-resistant, and delightful to observe. The leaves fold when touched at night or when exposed to extreme cold or ...

Q. We have a neighbor who plans to plant a mimosa tree. He says he can and will control its growth. My neighbors and I are concerned that controlling its seed dispersal will be close to impossible.

That depends on many things. If you want it for shade, the west or south sides would be obvious, or perhaps to the east. If you’re concerned about its winter hardiness, that shouldn’t matter. It ...

There are small trees with pink, puffy blooms dotting the county as mimosa trees have been glowing for a couple of weeks. Native to southern Asia, introduction of the tree to the United States has ...

Exploding into abundance in the dead of winter with delicate, cloud-like yellow flowers, the mimosa is a botanical boom. It heralds brighter days to come, but pinning down its history, meaning and ...

Q: There are these trees blooming along the highway that remind me of the old troll dolls! What are they? A: Those are Mimosa Trees! Beloved by many, and hated by some (according to my non-scientific ...

Among the most brilliant of flowering trees are those in the Fabaceae, or legume, family of plants. Imagine, for example, a tree with long golden chains of five-petaled flowers, so profuse that they ...

My photo shows the flower of a small lanky tree most of us refer to as the 'mimosa tree.'  Much like the term 'buffalo' has been mistakenly applied to the American bison, in the U. S., the silk ...