Finally have had a little rain.

[Lady D]

We finally have had a little rain. It is a very pleasant 79 degrees here. They are showing a 50% chance of rain for us through Thursday and then 40% Friday. But the way the weather is here it can change totally tomorrow. But we have had some consequences as to having no rain. Our nice Mimosa tree up in the front yard is nearly dead. The main part of the trunk is still green but just about every limb is dead. My husband is going to try and prune it back near the trunk to see if it might sprout back out new growth. Hopefully we can salvage something since there are a few green leaves on it still. Makes us sad.

 

[DD]

Lady, don't give up on your Mimosa. I have several in my yard, and constantly have little ones sprouting up everywhere. We have cut some pretty good sized ones down only to have them sprout back out. I truly consider them to be a weed....only because I have so many and they're hard to get rid of. Pretty weeds though.

 

[audie]

rain - what's that ? i seem to remember some rain in the far back reaches of my mind.....none in site for us for the next week i don't think.

 

[Allifunn]

I washed the car yesterday and watered the yard at the same time...think that will bring me some rain? I sure need it!

 

[Miss Kitty]

I'm sorry to tell y'all that it is raining here again. Of course, I ran my sprinklers yesterday...that might have something to do with it. ;-) Really...this has to be the wettest summer we have ever had!

 

[NoHall]

We finally have had a little rain. It is a very pleasant 79 degrees here. They are showing a 50% chance of rain for us through Thursday and then 40% Friday. But the way the weather is here it can change totally tomorrow. But we have had some consequences as to having no rain. Our nice Mimosa tree up in the front yard is nearly dead. The main part of the trunk is still green but just about every limb is dead. My husband is going to try and prune it back near the trunk to see if it might sprout back out new growth. Hopefully we can salvage something since there are a few green leaves on it still. Makes us sad.

STOP! Make sure that the limbs are truly dead before you do that. If there are still a few green leaves on it, they are NOT dead. Trees are going dormant early because of the drought. Limbing it back like that will ruin the shape of it. Ruin it. Permanantly. You will do a lot more damage to it by cutting it. Topping kills trees, and pruning shrubs back to the ground will ruin the shape forever.

Do a scratch test on the smaller branches. Scratch the bark--your fingernail will work fine on mimosa. If there is green underneath, it's still alive and you should LEAVE IT ALONE. (Or just water it!) If it's brown underneath, go to the next larger branch and check it. If they truly are dead branches, cut only the dead branch off where it comes off the branch before it (or where it comes off the trunk.) Don't cut it flush with the trunk; it needs a few inches to heal.

LadyD, I hope that your mimosa makes it...

 

[seacrestkristi]

Please, dear Lord, send some of this thing you call RAIN our way.

 

[dbuck]

I washed the car yesterday and watered the yard at the same time...think that will bring me some rain? I sure need it!

I washed my car on Labor Day (Monday) - low and behold we got rain on Tuesday and it wasn't even predicted. Everyone around here can now thank me.

 

[CPort]

Lady, don't give up on your Mimosa. I have several in my yard, and constantly have little ones sprouting up everywhere. We have cut some pretty good sized ones down only to have them sprout back out. I truly consider them to be a weed....only because I have so many and they're hard to get rid of. Pretty weeds though.

I know each to his own but I can't kill mimosas either. I don't like'em
Bet yours isn't dead ladydebubba60 , it'll come back big time.

 

[Lady D]

It just poured down in rain here. The bottom dropped out. I just love it. And btw, the Mimosa is not dead, several thin branches were dead and my husband cut some of them off, these were skinny, he scraped a place on them and they were definitely dead, they were brown. He did it properly and it doesn't look bad. But there is new growth coming out on the tree so hopefully it will make it. And there is another newer one growing behind that one. So all hope is not lost yet.