Joshua Siskin writes about gardening in Southern California each week.
For the last two months, I have been admiring the flower show provided by my yellow pride of Barbados .
With yellow pride of Barbados, the large plumes of golden flowers are perched on feathery, fern-like shoots of bipinnate leaves. An aside: the poinsettia is also unusually beautiful , and its Latin name of In our climate, both of these plants, native to Mexico and the Caribbean, will grow into 10-foot tall shrubs that make an excellent screen or security barrier due their thorns. To keep them compact, prune drastically in the spring, even down to the ground, and they will quickly grow back up again.Before leaving this group of plants, we must pause for a moment to regale their arboreal relative, the yellow poinciana tree .
There is another tree referred to as yellow jacaranda, presently flowering in an explosion of orange-yellow. This is the tipu tree , a South American legume that is a shade tree in the truest sense, and also tops out at 40 feet. Let’s say you have a backyard that bakes in the sun and are considering planting a tree that will create the kind of shade that will induce you to spend more time outdoors when the summer heat comes. This just might be the tree for you.
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