i live in nanaimo, bc. is it ok to give a mimosa a heavy pruning in fall after flowering as it's growing into the neighbors yard and getting too tall to manage. if I do, will it give off shoots the same as a cherry does with hard pruning?
just checking again as to how much can prune back a mimosa tree without causing damage? I couldn't find any information regarding this so hoping someone can recommend.
There doesn't appear to be a limit to how much is too much. If I were to cut one to the ground in Florida, either the trunk or the roots would send up shoots. If your tree is small enough to selectively prune for thinning out the crown or shaping it, that might be your best bet. Instead of just shearing it off, you would select a branch and nip it back to the trunk or to the larger branch. If you do this, the general rule is to take no more than a third of the entire canopy. If you shear sections of it off, you may get rather unattractive water sprouts at cut ends.
