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Okay, so now it's alleged Caesalpinia. It'll consistently be a poinciana to me.

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A brace of weeks ago, I bemoaned the dematerialization of my Sweet Pea Abode on Maple and I-610 West.

Then bygone I collection bottomward West Hardy, aloof accomplished Crosstimbers, and durn if my Poinciana Abode isn’t gone too!

What’s activity on?

Some may alarm it progress. I alarm it sad. Well, sad for me, anyway.

Just as I acclimated to go out of my way to see my Sweet Pea House, I admired active bottomward West Hardy, alongside the Hardy Assessment Road, aloof to bolt a glimpse of those abundantly admirable chicken and orange poinciana flowers.

Okay, okay, Now they’re alleged Caesalpinias. Or maybe Pride of Barbados. I don’t care. They’ll consistently be poincianas to me.

Every bounce I’d watch anxiously to see if they’d return. Amazing that our acute weathers didn’t clean them out. That astonishing algid for ’89 and ’90. The droughts. Allison flood. Ike. You name it.

No amount what I feared would be the end of them, they consistently returned.

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Now that admirable little abode is gone and those anxiously tended area are gone

I apperceive they were anxiously tended because Kathy Huber interviewed the owners on my recommendation.

Here’s Kathy’s commodity that ran August 26, 2006. Reprinting actuality as my acknowledge you to Jose and Beneralda Reyes for all the decades of amusement their flowers gave me.

BY KATHY HUBER

HOUSTON CHRONICLE

It’s an unexpected, acceptable atom of acclamation forth a active assessment road. But the Pride of Barbados in Jose and Beneralda Reyes’ garden is a billow of scarlet and chicken so striking, dispatch drivers are decumbent to amphitheater the block for addition look. The gotta-haves angrily beating on the family’s aperture to ask about the plant.

“I accept abounding compliments, ” Jose says. “It’s nice. I get to accommodated people.”

And a acceptable Reyes gives admirers berry if they’re available.

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Pride of Barbados, formally accepted as Caesalpinia pulcherrima, is a tough-as-nails adorableness additionally alleged dwarf poinciana, red bird of paradise and peacock flower. A affiliate of the pea family, it demands sun and calefaction to bloom, absolutely no botheration in August. This car-stopping accessory alike defies powder-dry soil.

Reyes, a artisan with Halliburton, says he bought the bulb years ago at a home advance store. Back he activate it didn’t like actuality in a pot, he buried it in advanced of the house.

A fast grower, it now shares the front-garden spotlight with an American flag. “I’m appreciative of this society, ” says Reyes, who confused to this country back he was 18 and Beneralda was 17. They accept bristles children, ages 9 to 24.

His Pride of Barbados blooms activate about May and amble until algid weather. The arresting flowers are arranged in cone-shaped clusters. As they open, they’re red with chicken margins, crumbling to all red. The spatulate-shaped petals accept channelled edges, and the red stamens ambit like outrageously continued lashes that all but coquette with collywobbles and hummingbirds.

The blooms are added amazing than those of C. gilliesii (sometimes Poinciana gilliesii), addition “bird of paradise” whose chicken blooms accept continued red stamens; and C. mexicana, a baby deciduous timberline built-in to Texas and Mexico with fragrant, aureate chicken flowers and chicken stamens.

Pride of Barbados bound shoots up and out 8-10 feet, its fine-textured, mimosalike foliage giving the root-hardy bulb an aerial grace.

“The best important affair – it doesn’t crave abundant care, “ Reyes says. “I anticipate it’s best larboard alone. Last year I fertilized. It grew but didn’t blossom much, so this year I larboard it alone.”

The brownish berry the Reyeses allotment from their bulb are from 4-inch beanlike pods that anatomy at the bases of the annual clusters. The berry can be hardly sanded or blood-soaked afore sowing about an inch abysmal in a moist, well-draining soil.

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Reyes acquired his adulation of attributes from his grandmother in Mexico , and it’s accessible throughout the family’s garden. There are abundant added low-care bloomers here. Pots of spiral, carapace and peacock gingers and an astronomic pencil cactus anatomy the advanced walk. The adhering red flowers of a jatropha accommodate a close ballast on one ancillary of the drive. The ferny foliage and rich-red tubular blooms of reseeding cypress backcountry array a baby white crape myrtle and chicken accretion (Tecoma stans).

There’s amethyst bougainvillea and the butter-yellow spikes of reseeding Cassia alata, or candlestick plant. Bees and collywobbles acquisition ambrosia in the accumulation of alien amethyst passionflower blooms.

The Reyes’ blush altheas annual all summer, as do several oleanders and hibiscus developed from cuttings. They’ve developed so well, Reyes will anon accord the aerial shrubs a acceptable trim. Pruning makes them bristling and gives the ancestors privacy.

“I like things full, ” he says.

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I did stop by already and agape on the door. I was on my way to accord a agronomical address and their plants were covered with berry pods. I asked if I could buy some from them to accord away.

They laughed and said, No!

But I could accept as abounding as I capital and they helped me cull a bucket-full off their plants.—–

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