I have a row of them, and have notices that they tend to stop flowering when they get lots of seed pods forming at once . . . usually until after those pods are all dried & have dispersed their seeds.
We have both Hummingbirds & Orioles vying for their flower nectar during nesting season,
so I'd like to keep them in flower-production-mode, if that is at all possible.
About a week ago I removed a lot of semi-developed seed pods from them, but, I still see no new flower buds forming . . . although the following article makes the claim that "the more the plant is pruned, the more the plant will bloom":
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The Desert Bird-of-Paradise"
- Caesalpinia gilliesie
http://www.examiner.com/article/the-...rd-of-paradise
(Riverside Gardening | Examiner.com)
Mine are on a slight incline, in heavy clay soil, with Freeway Ice Plant growing around their feet . . .
I prune them up into small trees, instead of sprawling bushes).
Does anyone any experience trying different methods of keeping this plant in flower most if not all of the time? I'm thinking that if I had been removing the dead flowers & their individual stems may have had the desired effect. (I removed seed pods
after they had begun various stages of development, and flowering had slowed.)