{"id":4078,"date":"2012-05-03T18:57:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T01:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/03\/return-of-the-red-bird-of-paradise-2\/"},"modified":"2012-05-03T18:57:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T01:57:07","slug":"return-of-the-red-bird-of-paradise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/03\/return-of-the-red-bird-of-paradise-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Red Bird of Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Red Birds are coming back to the courtyard, it won&#8217;t be long until the beautiful flowers start appearing. I posted this item exactly a year ago today explaining why I just LOVE these plants and their flowers . . .<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This is probably my favorite desert shrub. The shrub is called \u201cRed Bird of Paradise\u201d or \u201cThe Pride of Barbados.\u201d They are native to Central America, parts of South America and the West Indies. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desert-tropicals.com\/Plants\/Fabaceae\/Caesalpinia_pulcherrima.html\">Desert Tropicals<\/a>, a Phoenix based garden information website, has information on cultivation and care of these pretty shrubs. They recommend planting them six feet apart and after summer in November or so, to cut them almost to the ground to keep them compact. In mid-spring, they will grow quite rapidly to between six and fifteen feet high.<\/p>\n<p>I took this photo today while we were in Glendale, AZ, doing some shopping. Very soon, we will be having our landscape contractor install several of these around our house. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/red-bird.jpg' title='red-bird.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/red-bird.jpg' alt='red-bird.jpg' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Red Birds are coming back to the courtyard, it won&#8217;t be long until the beautiful flowers start appearing. I posted this item exactly a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8,3,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-pretty-stuff","category-photography","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}