tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167190851266384344.post8116879263236391753..comments2023-05-18T07:49:27.209-07:00Comments on The 100 Species Challenge: #23 MimosaSandra Doddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11853107998229753762noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167190851266384344.post-50639024779289419672014-10-28T08:56:38.395-07:002014-10-28T08:56:38.395-07:00I don't prune them, but that one died. Perhap...I don't prune them, but that one died. Perhaps my husband helped it a bit... <br /><br />It was growing leaning over the sidewalk and that wasn't going to be good, ever. I think it was bumped too hard by a mower. <br /><br />It has three of its own offspring (from seed, I think; I don't think they come up from roots) in the same spot. :-)<br /><br />I thnk they're cousins of ferns, and as they get tall their branches are higher off the ground.<br /><br />The biggest ones I know aren't all that big, in New Mexico. <br />Sandra Doddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11853107998229753762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167190851266384344.post-26414641619039108302014-10-28T08:33:55.649-07:002014-10-28T08:33:55.649-07:00Beautiful photo. I wonder if you have new photos o...Beautiful photo. I wonder if you have new photos of it now and if you ever prune to control size. I wish we had these trees up North. The Backyard Gardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04898903077163789375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167190851266384344.post-26588265614477349112008-08-25T08:06:00.000-07:002008-08-25T08:06:00.000-07:00Our next door neighbors at our old house had a sta...Our next door neighbors at our old house had a stand of mimosas, probably four had grown together into one big tree, and Holly would climb in it when she was little. She and Marty asked very nicely for permission, and our neighbor Mo (who spoke on history at the Live and Learn conference in Albuquerque, so some of my readers will have that connection) was happy to have them climb in it!<BR/><BR/>Our front yard only had a blue spruce (species coming in the second 25, soon!) and it's not any good for climbing.Sandra Doddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11853107998229753762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167190851266384344.post-58170284132571994182008-08-18T15:55:00.000-07:002008-08-18T15:55:00.000-07:00My best friend for most of my childhood (she lived...My best friend for most of my childhood (she lived next door) in Houston had a mimosa tree in her yard. We used to climb it and hang ourselves upside down from it. It was one of my favorite trees. About 2 years ago we planted a similar tree in our backyard in Iowa. I will take a photo of it for me 100 species. It is a sumac tree. It has red coned flowers on it now. It is a smaller tree with branches like a mimosa.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for sharing!Heather's Moving Castlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16790219802039659669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167190851266384344.post-11608011966782752532008-08-17T19:01:00.000-07:002008-08-17T19:01:00.000-07:00We had a lovely little mimosa tree in our front ya...We had a lovely little mimosa tree in our front yard in our neighborhood in Bucks County, PA, when I was growing up in the seventies and early eighties. My southern mama loved the tree, and her genteel sensibilities would be horrified to hear that it is considered a "trailer trash tree" anywhere! : )Christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09399801831076566326noreply@blogger.com