Pride of Barbados

We’re on the road again! Today, we stopped for a few groceries in Indio, California. While I was waiting for Bob to come out of the store, I took this photo of a “Pride of Barbados,” a.k.a. “Red bird of Paradise.”

This is probably my favorite flowering shrub in the world – unfortunately, they refuse to thrive where we live. They love desert climates – along the California coast? Not so much. Click on the image to enlarge.

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By the way – I took an even better picture of one of these in Kingman, Arizona last year.

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