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when Mimosa comes into bloom if we had any sense we'd drop whatever else we were doing and have a weeklong festival to celebrate silly season.  a plant so clearly designed by Dr Seuss deserves no less of us.  but then it is one of those exotic invasives that I do go on about, so perhaps a low key approach is more suitable. 

this isolated specimen is the first one I've seen this year.  over the next few days it will be joined by many others and their heady fragrance will fill the air around and after dusk.  if you're out for an evening walk, take a moment to enjoy it. 

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The first time I ever really paid attention to a mimosa tree (and that was recently, I must confess), I got this vision in my mind of pink fuzzy caterpillars doing little dances on the ends of branches. It's kinda stuck with me since then.

My mother says that she had mimosa trees all over her backyard when she was a young girl in Florida. I don't know if I would've liked being surrounded by such bizarre little blooms.

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I decided to plant the mimosa tree that I got from a friend in Morgantown in the ground here in Iowa in a spot that is sheltered in the winter. Maybe I'll treat it like a rose bush and cover it this fall, though I never cover the roses I have next to the house on the south side. I've had it in a bonsai pot for a few years in the house in winter and out in the summer. The dogwood I planted when we got here is doing great at the Southeast corner of the house. TK