Accacia Dealbata - Browing leaves

My Jacarandas are 'almost' evergreen and are only just dropping their last year's fronds as this year's are arriving. Some I see in Silves and other places are nekkid as the day they were born ...

Pete, I had two beauties of Albizias (Mimosas as we called them in the States) at the end of our drive overhaning each other touching like an arch. I have a pic but won't but it up because I am in it ...

 

Kristen, your Albizia should be ok just dormant, I think the 'mass' produced ones now are tissue culture and therefore should always have the chocolate colour whereas mine being from seed are variable and not always dark.

Pete I guess some mature Acacias will withstand extreme low temperatures as you've verified but I doubt anything lower than -9/10 for more than a few nights.
The small newly planted ones definitely can't take them.

Robinia Frisia could be an alternative although they can be brittle in windy areas. Sophora Microphylla has an exotic look with attractive yellow flowers

Vicky, the scent must be overpowering.
Acacia Longifolia is an invasive pest all along the Med where it is everywhere.

 

Oh go on. go on, you know you want to.

 

Look at a deciduous tree growing near a street lamp.
Often one branch that is nearest the light will keep its leaves longer.

But they all go in the end.

 

Okay, Pete, don't laugh .. it was 1976 I think ... so I was a young 28 ...

 

Very nice Victoria

 

Really? I'm jealous. I've got one in a pot and was thinking it could never "stay" out, and would need a South wall. There's a biggie at East Ruston Old Vicarage, in their walled garden and facing South!. I thought that 0C was their minimum?

Nice leaves though ... the O/P might find them attractive (but not as a direct substitute for A. delabata of course)

Yup, I've been and had a look and the buds are breaking ... I think I just assumed it was "tropical" and therefore should have kept its leaves. But, thanks to this thread and a bit of Googling I know better now :thumb:

 

Acacia pravissima.

 

Acacia dealbata is hardy to -10C when mature. We had a 50 year old one on the peninsula and a few mature ones in the local botanic gardens and one in our lower town that wasn't completely cut back. The former were cut back, but the good news is they grow back very fast! So even if it does cut down, it'll grow back from the roots.

 

Pete, your Pravissima is spectacular, unfortunately I left my one at work as there is no room in my garden for one.

That's true about mature ones but planting a small one now and having two consecutive Winters like the last ones won't give them the chance. Most mature Acacias were planted possibly up to ten or twelve years ago and grew through many mild Winters.
I hope we don't have another like the last two, I have lost too many plants.