Caesalpinia gilliesii Low Stock where the evergreen leaves and

where the evergreen leaves and summer buttons earn a spot near water or in a mixed shrub planting

silver-backed foliage earns a place even out of bloom

plant 'Hummingbird' in sun to part shade and moist

salt spray

Jon Lindstrom of the University of Arkansas

Caesalpinia gilliesii Low Stock where the evergreen leaves andFew 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