Caesalpinia gilliesii Low Stock salt spray

salt spray

plant 'Hummingbird' in sun to part shade and moist

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

silver-backed foliage earns a place even out of bloom

Caesalpinia gilliesii Low Stock salt sprayFew 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