Tropicals & Tender Perennials: PRIDE OF BARBADOS (CAESALPINIA PULCHERRIMA), 1 by Clare_CA

Clare_CA wrote:
That is a very pretty flower, Bagpypr. A trader in Brazil send me some red and some pink seeds a couple of years ago, but I couldn't keep them happy through the winter, and all my seedlings died. I did, however, collect a bunch of seeds of the C. gilliesi at a local nursery (with permission), and those came up and survived very well through the winter. I didn't get flowers on any of those seedlings last summer, but I expect I might this summer. I did buy the plant below with the flowers last summer, but no seedpods followed.

Here is a close-up of mine last summer: