share.triangle.com - Mimosa Flowers - Comments

Woa

CalicoBullet — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:49:34 -0400

My grandmother warned me that these trees could become invasive. I didn't know about the seeds being viable for so long though! Oh well. I guess I can pull up the seedlings as they germinate. It is too pretty a tree to get rid of.

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." Thomas Jefferson, 1791

Mimosa

Java55 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:42:19 -0400

You'll have to watch this tree after a few years as the seeds inside the seedpods it produce can be viable in the ground for nearly a century! Their hard waxy coatings keep them preserved until scratched to allow moisure to pentrate. If you have to mow around this tree, inevitably you'll be scratching a number of these seeds as the lawn mower rolls over them and they will sprout, sometimes lots of them!

Mimosa Flowers

CalicoBullet — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:18:24 -0400

I planted this Mimosa tree about 3 years ago, and this is it's first blooming.

Rating: 3.0

Mimosa Flowers

CalicoBullet