Caesalpinia mexicana, most often known as Mexican bird of paradise, is a perennial shrub with feathery green foliage and showy yellow flowers when in bloom. It’s not to be confused with some of ...

Mexican bird-of-paradise (Caesalpinia mexicana) can be grown as a large shrub or miniature tree.Very showy, bright-yellow flower clusters arise from the canopy and bloom nearly year-round. David ...

Answer: The Mexican bird of paradise plant name is used by homeowners to describe two different but similar plants.They look similar except for the color of the flowers. The one with all yellow ...

Q: My Mexican bird of paradise was gorgeous this year, the best ever. The flowers are now going to seed pods. Should I cut it back? What is the proper way to care for this plant as it moves into fa ...

A: There are three species of bird of paradise (Caesalpinia) grown in the Southwest, red (C. pulcherrima), yellow (C. gilliesii), and Mexican (C. mexicana).In general, the pruning of bird of ...

The “real” bird of paradise, not the shrubby smallish tree, Mexican bird of paradise, that grows here. She told me that these plants won’t grow here in the Albuquerque area.

Paradise is associated with the sort of ideal life Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden — prior to eating from the Tree of Knowledge — when the phenomenon of death did not yet exist. How ...

You could say that Don Vtipil is the Johnny Appleseed of bird of paradise trees. This time of year, the unusual feathery red and yellow blooms of Vtipil's tropical-looking trees, or large shrubs ...