Chelle the pics of your yard are beautiful!
Re- the mimosas, they are beautiful, but can be invasive. Around here, not so much because the winters get cold. One year a mimosa in my yard died all the way back to the ground- resprouted. Like a large bush. I cut it out. It just doesn't like cold winters.
I bought a bunch of plants and didn't get them in the ground before winter so I piled them up pot and all in a big mound of mulch, hoping for a mild winter like we sometimes get. Our house still needs alot of work and we hope to do more insulating and window change outs ect come spring. Wouldn't you know it, our usual luck has struck an we are having the WORST winter. Temps have been 5 below at least and for days, and ice and snow and power outages in the area, although not us yet thank goodness. I HATE winter. I would LOVE to never see another day of it, and for June to be year round LOL
