summer flowering trees

Mimosa Tree

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Filippo degli Albizzia was descended from a family of Florentine power brokers that made successive economic and political splashes in that city beginning in the fourteenth century. At various times members of the Albizzia family, armed with a fortune made in the wool trade, were politicians, important churchmen, mistresses of churchmen, and inquisitors. Filippo was … Read more

Draped in Crape Myrtle

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Growing up in the wilds of western New York State, crape myrtles were as foreign to me as winters without snow.  I had a vague notion that they were nearly as important in the South, as camellias, but even northeastern greenhouses that were chock full of winter-flowering camellias were devoid of crape myrtle. I was … Read more