In Rome in February the florists sell bunches of mimosa below the Spanish Steps. Bright yellow puffs of flowers dangle from the silvery branches, and they smell of southern spring. Last year I brought ...

Mimosa trees, also known as Persian silk trees, are fast-growing trees that require regular pruning. With its fragrant, puffy pink flowers from April to July and its feathery, fern-like foliage, this ...

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 ...

We have a three-year-old hardy mimosa, growing against a south-facing wall. It is happy enough, but now 6ft tall and rather straggly. We can find no information about the cultivation of hardy mimosa - ...

Mimosa is associated with clear blue skies, notably the Cote d'Azur in the south of France, where wealthy people from northern Europe used to enjoy the same benign winter climate that encouraged a ...