Caesalpinia gilliesii Low Stock Jon Lindstrom of the University

Jon Lindstrom of the University of Arkansas

Trim lightly after flowering to keep the mound neat

and give way to broad

The flowers come in late winter and spring on terminal panicles up to ten inches long

salt spray

Caesalpinia gilliesii Low Stock Jon Lindstrom of the UniversityFew hardy shrubs put on a show like Caesalpinia gilliesii, the desert bird of paradise, whose summer flowers open clear yellow and send out a spray of long scarlet stamens like fireworks caught mid burst. A legume from the dry country of Argentina and Uruguay, long naturalized across the American Southwest, the plant carries ferny, blue green, mimosa like foliage that sets off the flamboyant bloom. Botanists now place the species in the genus