GARDENING GERRY DALY IN THE last week or so, a spectacular flowering tree has been drawing attention. If you live near the coast, you may have noticed the showy yellow flowers of the mimosa, but if ...

Can the Belt Parkway ever be beautiful? Maybe not, but one family, who has been selling flowers beside the highway for years, is determined to try. The Cuateco family runs a roadside flower stand ...

Summer 1962: It was the summer of “Wolverton Mountain” by Claude King (which was a good thing), Marilyn Monroe had just died (a sad thing), and America was soon to be gearing up for a missile crisis ...

Like miniature pompoms bursting with color and fragrance, mimosa flowers turn the hills around France’s perfume capital, Grasse, a golden yellow for a couple of fleeting weeks each year. Though they ...

In the current issue of the Market Bulletin, produced by our Department of Agriculture, I noticed someone offering mimosa trees for sale. It’s one of my favorite summer bloomers, in spite of the bad ...