Product Description
Transition the seasons from winter to spring with bold and bright colour year after year! The canary-yellow blooms of the Flowering Mimosa Tree are a spectacular sight from January to April every year.
Hundreds of bobbly yellow blooms smother the branches of the Mimosa tree in a lemon haze, almost hiding the stunning grey green filigree foliage that makes this tree a handsome year-round feature in the garden. The eye-catching pom-pom blooms not only look a picture but carry a heavenly fragrance and provide a valuable nectar source for friendly insects that emerge in milder weather, altogether a super tree to own!
Widely seen across southern Europe, this variety will thrive outdoors in most of the UK too and is a great plant for conservatories or sunny corners of a room indoors in regions prone to severe frost. It's a great choice for a large container too producing a unique feature tree. Winter Hardy down to -5, will need protecting in very cold winters.
Supplied as an established 80cm caned plant in a 19cm pot, ready to plant out.
What Is Supplied
Item 510235 supplied as:
Supplied as an established 80cm caned plant in a 19cm pot, ready to plant out.
Plant Information
Care Guide
Planting Advice for Mimosa:
- Grow mimosa in a sunny, sheltered site in well-drained, neutral to acid soil. Protect from frost and winds.
- Best planted in the spring, after all danger of frosts has passed, so that new wood is given the longest possible ripening period before its first winter.
- If you garden in an exposed or frost-prone area, then Mimosa is best grown in a large pot where it will make a great conservatory plant and should be watered only occasionally over winter.
- Dig a planting hole 3 x wider than the roots of the shrub you're planting and mix some well-rotted compost or manure with the soil from the hole and use this to re-fill once the shrub is in place.
- Before planting soak container-grown shrubs thoroughly and allow to drain.
- Remove the plant from its pot and tease out a few of the roots.
- Add Mycorrhizal fungi to the roots when planting to help plants establish quicker.
- Place your shrub in the hole at the same level at the pot and refill the hole with the earth removed (backfilling).
- Firm in the soil with your heel, avoiding the root ball and water well.
- Mulch around the base of the plant with a collar, compost, gravel, bark etc.
- If you're planting into pots, place some old rocks, stones or gravel in the bottom of the pot for drainage and ballast.
- Use the best ericaceous compost you can buy and some sand or grit for drainage.
Aftercare Advice for Mimosa:
- You'll need to provide shelter from the worst of the winter weather as Mimosa does not like the cold.
- If damaged by cold weather, it should regrow from the base as a multi-stem, which is ideal if planted in a small garden as it will restrict its growth.
- All new growth is more susceptible to damage from cold weather, so provide adequate frost protection for the first two years to help it survive.
Pruning Advice for Mimosa:
- Pruning is not necessary apart from to remove any branches that are dead or damaged
Planting / Flowering Calendar
Planting Time
Flowering Time
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
Jun |
Jul |
Aug |
Sep |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fully Grown Plant dimensions (approx)
300cm
150cm
Product Reviews
Product Rating:
Rating Not Provided
Service Rating:
Plant arrived intact and promptly. It is healthy and as expected. I would recommend.
Review Submitted: 03/02/2023 - 13:15:00
Product Rating:
Service Rating:
Service:
both arrived well protected from transit and very healthy
Product:
arrived in bloom but over now replaced by healthy looking new shoots
Review Submitted: 22/03/2022 - 12:46:22
Product Rating:
Rating Not Provided
Service Rating:
Thanks for good service as always but the delivery this time was appalling it wasn't even in my rise I found it a close not only that it had been out.in the rain and their was some damage,I will be ordering in the week
Review Submitted: 14/01/2020 - 07:25:02
Product Rating:
Rating Not Provided
Service Rating:
Good delivery plant looks very healthy
Review Submitted: 14/03/2019 - 11:22:29
Product Rating:
Rating Not Provided
Service Rating:
Service-wise the plant arrived quickly and adequately packaged, so I don?t have a problem with that. However, I spent 25 on thiis Mimosa plant hoping, in time, for a beautiful tree. When it arrived, the top leaves looked dry and shrivelled but I thought it may just be the nature of the tree. The top leaves have now died and the rest of the plant looks as though it is also dying because the leaves are changing to brown. Although the instructions say the plant may be left outside, I kept it in my garden room to acclimatise it just in case it had come straight from a nursery environment. I had exactly the same experience with a Chinese Witch Hazel I ordered a few months ago, it really didn?t look healtgarden hy on arrival and now looks as though it may be dead. I have bought plants from Garden Bargains previously without problems, so wonder why my last two orders were so disappointing.
Review Submitted: 11/03/2019 - 13:12:20
Product Rating:
Service Rating:
Service:
Very prompt receive the plant and packed well
Product:
The plant arrived well packaged and intact.
Review Submitted: 07/02/2019 - 17:08:16
Product Rating:
Service Rating:
Service:
Very good service plant arrived in excellent condition look forward to seeing the flowers in the spring.
Product:
Couldn't fault the services arrived in a timely fashion in excellent condition.
Review Submitted: 07/02/2019 - 19:00:50
Product Rating:
Rating Not Provided
Service Rating:
As usual plant arrived fresh and in good order even though it took longer than usual
Review Submitted: 06/02/2019 - 18:25:22
Product Rating:
Service Rating:
Service:
Plants arrived in good condition
Product:
Lovely plant
Review Submitted: 20/07/2018 - 09:33:04
Product Rating:
Service Rating:
Service:
had to ring garden bargains twice. once to enquire about a late delivery and again about a missing item in a parcel. excellent service. both matters resolved immediately by curtious and efficient staff.
Product:
beautiful plant. arrived in flower and good condition.
Review Submitted: 04/04/2018 - 21:43:01
Product Rating:
Service Rating:
Service:
My plant arrived in good time
Product:
It looked as if it had been stored without light for some time. The plant was bent over and the upper leaves are yellow and dropping off. I am hoping that repotting and protecting it from harsh winds will allow it to recover.
Review Submitted: 13/09/2016 - 23:01:46
Product Rating:
Service Rating:
Service:
Delivered in good condition, a bit too tall for box but soon straightened out with a garden cane.
Product:
Looks very strong can't wait for it to bloom!
Review Submitted: 11/08/2016 - 11:06:48
Product Rating:
Service Rating:
Packaging was excellent plants are the best quality that I have seen I was very impressed thank you I will order again
Review Submitted: 10/08/2016 - 07:55:45
Product Rating:
Service Rating:
Service:
Brilliant great variety of plants not easy to find. Delivery always prompt Highly recommend garden gardens.
Product:
Very happy to get this tree which as advertised is smaller than the normal mimosa and will withstand British winters. Very happy with the quality of the tree received.
Review Submitted: 21/07/2016 - 06:13:18
Product Rating:
Service Rating:
Service:
The plants are of excellent quality, the packaging perfect but I was a little disappointed with the time it took for delivery
Product:
Excellent! What more can I say?!
Review Submitted: 24/06/2016 - 08:56:15