Genus: Calliandra

I like this, with the fronds framing behind.

Oh yes. Calliandra is a wonderful group of plants. I have been away from CA. too long. We used to sell that plant. Many species and hybrids now. I think C. eriophylla is the hardiest. None would make it up here.

I think Miniature Bottlebrush was another common name for it.

Actually, sky, this is a Calliandra californica. I don't know a whole lot about plants. I just know that I like some better than others, visually, that is. Right now I am hoping to get a couple of hoops blue spruces to add more of that year round color to my garden.

Nice to have a son like that. I actually have a wonderful cartoon that I worked on, but it is too small to upload and when I resized it. JUNK.

I am heartbroken that an Arizonite of your stature would not have one Saquaro in her closet drawer.

Do check out the Austin Lounge Lizards. You, or your son perhaps might enjoy them. I have their first two albums. They do much to cheer you up on those days we sometimes have.

Do get back to me on that plant.I am interested.

TIA Herb

Bad news. I just had some slides developed that I thought were of Olympic Wild flowers. They were not. Just my common stuff. Why did I ever make slides of them" 14.00 later I am still looking for those other slides. 28.00 more! :-)

I did put up a new story today on hanging drapes.

Sorry, I had some beautiful shauaro pictures but when my one of the drives on my computer crashed, the pictures are unavailable until my son finds time to retrieve them. His computer forensics skills are in demand all the time so eventually he will get to my hard drive and its storage...

Totally unfamilier with this.

Not a grevillia is it. AZ native? I would have so much fun re-tooling my skills if I moved to my own love PORTAL AZ.

Skippy,

Where are your Sagauro pictures! I need to borrow one. You can have any two of mine in excahnge. Due credits being given. I just remembered the plant I chose to be re-incarnated as. It was truth in advertizing. I picked the Saguaro as I can be a prickly sort sometimes.

Oh do pick up a copy of the Austin Lounge Lizards.

http://www.austinlizards.com/music.html

Darn, now I need to buy a few more albums. Mine are the real old ones like --. Creatures From the Black Saloon -

Saguaro Was one of my favorites. Do click on this link, it begins with a small clip. The ending was brilliant!

http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=15887

That's lovely!

Those are very attractive. :o)

You could google for them?

Fabulous!

Ah...there is such a plant at my local Garden Centre with an identical leaf type, I will have to find out the name.

Ams, Well, you know i had to go touch the leaves to find out but no, they do not close up.

Skippy, when you touch the leaves do they close up reacting to your body heat?

Not one for the UK then!

I guess I was editing the details when you added your comment. Don't like the cold.

Skippy, is this plant hardy in cold climate?

I know this is such a beautiful tree. The leaves are very similar to Calliandra tweedii...very fine-like mimosa leaves.

So similar to mine, same cluster buds, leaves are larger individually. Lovely shot.

Lovely picture. I like those ribbon like petals or leaves or whatever it is. Would love to see one in real.

Yes these flowers look a lot larger and the drooping kind, different from my Calliandra emarginata. The foliage is similar though.

Very colourful and pretty.

I forgot to mention this tree is native to Southern Mexico and Northwest Panama.

The buds on practically all species of Calliadras are the same.
I'll post an interesting pretty rare species of Calliandra soon.

Stunning flowers!
The buds are interesting too.

I've looked this up.
Apparently the name comes from the pink powder puff flowers.

Great photo and yes with winter care can be grown in the UK keep in a cool frost free location watering very occassionally then outside for our English summer. A little like Orchid culture.

Wish I were too!

Hi Terry, I don't mind, I am a grandmother!

Oooops are we giving too much away? !! Although, I think they made a comeback a while ago when everything 70s was considered trendy

That's right Terry, I remember those, and often they would even move, sway to and fro.

Beautiful - reminds me those fluorescent lights we used to have in the 70s -

Pretty photo.

Nice close-up photo....!

Janey, you are absolutely right, the Albizia is in the same family but is a large tree, and these are more shrubs. Ams, this flower comes from those little berry like buds. The bottle brush is a native to Australia and the calliandra species come from Sout America. I have tried to find out if they are related, but I doubt it. They certainly look like sisters, but this one is just one tuft, whilst the Callistemon is on a long row of tufts.

This tree reminds me of one I used to have called an Albitzia although the flowers were cream with pink tips, lovely how they stand up on top.

very pretty

Looks like a half sister to the Callistemon citrinus splendens (bottle brush).