Albizia julibrissin (silk tree)

Stunning I would love to be able to grow one here

Very seldom I put a plant in the right spot. Always too sunny or too shady or too wet, too dry for each I pant.
This one is in the perfect spot for it to thrive. Very pleased. Such a beautiful tree.
Thank you for your comment Thrupennybit :-)

Your welcome Klahanie. I think lt would be to cold here to grow one you were lucky choosing the right .

Its a hardy tree Penney. Not tender at all for the UK.
It does leaf out late if summers are cool...but eventually it will.

How strange I've just Googled this to see how to take care of mine ,it was a tiny 6" stick when I bought it, its flourished this year and is a nice healthy looking little tree almost 2 ft tall , my info. tell me not to water it unless we have a very hot spell ,would you agree with that Klahanie ? I have mine in a pot to enable me to put it in the green house in the winter ...

I love this tree Amy. It has a wonderful shape and grows very quickly. I bet 5-6 feet in a year. Although, it is not a big tree at the maturity. Maybe wider than taller? I have it in the ground and water it quite regularly. It survived our winter outside. It is in full sun and it bloomed for me the first summer. This year it blooms beautifully.

I've seen lots of these trees in France Klahanie it was seeing them that made me want one , I wonder if it would survive our winters outside in the ground ..

Our winters are not so different from yours Amy. This is improved, cold hardy species. It can be grown in zones 5-10, as I understand it.

Thanks Klahanie it will obviously have to be planted out when it becomes bigger if not I'll have to have a bigger greenhouse door fitted Lol ..

LOL.

Klahanie:

It looks great! Nice and healthy.

It's widely grown here in San Diego. It grows extremely fast to 30' (10m). They bloomed really early this year (in late March)...so they stopped blooming very early.

The tree is healthy Delonix1. It is fastest growing tree I've own (except for a black walnut I planted in a wrong place) It is in the ground for only 2 years and it is probably more than 15' wide . I will crop it after it will stop blooming.

It does have a very wide canopy. I think the spread can be 50' (16m). Around the corner from me were three large trees at a school. Two were bulldozed down for the construction going on right now. :>((

That is a shame. We have a case nearby that a bank wanted to cut down an old Big leaf maple because they wanted to make bigger parking lot. Town's people protested, took it to City hall and won. The maple stays. They just had an arborist to prune it down. We have a huge big leaf maple (which is really a weed tree here) in very visible spot but I would never cut it down.

It's a shame. However, it's a very common tree here and they do grow very fast.

I like to hear stories people winning to save a tree. It happens here, also.

Here's a really nice recent story about a Brazilian Pepper tree that was save for a 91 y/o widow. It was planted by her husband 57 years ago.

http://fox5sandiego.com/2016/05/09/mayor-halts-removal-of-widows-tree/

Nice story. She is 91 so why not to save the tree for her.
Are roots of Pepper tree aggressive and close to surface, Delonix1?

I loved the story! It was on the tv news for a couple of days, also. :>)

Brazilian Pepper tree (Schinus terebinthifolia) is horrible weed tree here. It's roots are HORRIBLE!!! Many surface roots and huge root system. You can't plant anything under it. The tree in the story just needed the roots to be pruned and the top to be pruned a bit, though (it's a street sidewalk tree).

There's a similar story in Mission Beach by an old school. A development company wants to come and bulldoze the whole area of all the trees. One tree which is an 80 plus year old giant Ficus rubiginosa. The community is really upset and trying to save this tree.