Delonix regia

[bubba]

It has started.The most beautiful tree in the world has started going off in this area.Is red red or is red really red?

[simona]

They are common in the Jordan Valley but won't grow in Amman because it's much colder here.

[galveston1602]

The few we have wont bloom for another month here, it seems like the cold sets the blooming back a bit!

beautiful they are though!

[TikiRick]

The few we have wont bloom for another month here, it seems like the cold sets the blooming back a bit!

beautiful they are though!

My favorite tree marks the end of the dry season and winter and the beginning of the summer heat and (hopefully) rains. I love this tree....just unfortunate that our past busy hurricane season battered and bruised up many of them around town. Many were taken down. However, they are fast growers and we have had a very dry winter and spring...so that means great blooms on this magnificent tree.

[_Keith]

I will always remember a trip to Islamarado many years ago. We landed in Miami and drove down. For mile after mile I drooled on the window at those amazing trees, that I had never seen before, in all of their blazing glory.

I was equally saddened when I learned of their extreme cold sensitivity and that growing one in my climate would be impossible.

Seems I also remember some being a vivid red and others being more orangish. Was that a different tree in bloom at the same time, or a variation of the regia?

[Eric in Orlando]

I saw one down the street with a few flowers. I have kept notes on where larger specimens are around here and will have to go and see if any are flowering yet. Our big one doesn't have any yet, its just shedding last years foliage.

[epicure3]

Truly a stunning looking tree. Wish I could grow one. You rarely see them here. It is too cold to flower though I believe you can grow them for their foliage if you really want to. There is one down near PETCO Park where the Padres play that was in full bloom last year. Someone here on the board posted a picture of it. I think MattyB is also growing one.

[John in Andalucia]

You can bonsai them..

[spockvr6]

It has started.The most beautiful tree in the world has started going off in this area.Is red red or is red really red?

Yes...they are popping nicely up here as well.

[cagary]

Mine started popping about a month ago here in south Orange County in California.

[epicure3]

Mine started popping about a month ago here in south Orange County in California.

Do you have any pics? Love to see it.

[LJG]

Mine started popping about a month ago here in south Orange County in California.

Yeah, where is the pics?

[bubba]

"Blooming like Redcoats"-Sugar Magnolia-The Grateful Dead

[Gtlevine]

My Delonix here in inland So Cal is huge now and is leafing out. Unfortunately, it has not flowered yet but I hope it will flower within the next year or two.

Gary

[JimR]

There is one near me in Rockport, but I am stuck in San Antonio for another week, so I can't see!

[cagary]

Here's an old photo of mine. I don't have any of what it looks like now.

It spent its first 2 years planted in the ground inside my greenhouse. There is no real floor. The greenhouse frame was built on top of a large raised bed of sandy loam. The plants inside grow right in the ground.

It reached the 12 foot ceiling and then I dug it up and planted it in front of my home.

[simona]

A close up of the flowers:

[LJG]

Impressive greenhouse. Do you use the vents up top or just use exhaust fans to vent? Also, what do you use to maintain humidity? Fogger? Evap cooler?

[cagary]

Impressive greenhouse. Do you use the vents up top or just use exhaust fans to vent? Also, what do you use to maintain humidity? Fogger? Evap cooler?

The vents I use are solar. There is a cylinder filled with wax that has an arm in it. The arm operates the vent. When the weather gets warm, the wax expands pushing the arm out and opening the vent. When the weather cools back down at night the arm retracts back into the cylinder closing the vent.

I have sprinklers along the ceiling that are controlled by a timer. Depending on the time of year, these go on up to four times a day, which keeps the humidity up.

[ruskinPalms]

They are in bloom here too, surprisingly. They were froze back about 3 to 5 feet from their pre freeze radius in January this year, yet they are still blooming heavily. Even some very large specimens in Riverview FL and Brandon FL (technically 9A areas) of all places. Just goes to show there are more factors to growing tropical plants and palms than historical absolute winter minimums on a map.........

[epicure3]

Just goes to show there are more factors to growing tropical plants and palms than historical absolute winter minimums on a map.........

That is the truth. I never went below 40 degrees this past winter but the list of things I can't grow is long and distinguished.

[SubTropicRay]

A bunch are blooming in my neighborhood. With the Jacaranda's still holding some of their purple booms, the two plants in close proximity are quite a site.

[Palms1984]

I just wanted to add to the Delonix regia (Royal Poinciana) that the trees can grow and bloom in Southern California.

I have been interested in exotic palms and plants for many years; even a member of the International Palm Society off-and-on

since 1984.

I want to share a link: Delonix regia in Southern Cal. This website will give some good information and pictures of some of the... I'm

sure many trees growing in Southern Ca.

Here is the website:

"Delonix regia in Southern Cal." http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/ca...1926244178.html

[Juan-Carlos]

A beautiful Flowering tree indeed - a favorite to many, and VERY common here in Miami Florida Big huge specimens everywhere. I love them... However, I could do without all the litter it drops Some of the driveways around here look as if 50 lb's of tomatoes where squashed on the floor!! O_O

Non the less a spectacular tree! I'll pass though and admire the neighbors' trees They can clean up the mess :-D

-Jc

Miami, Florida

[Eric in Orlando]

Here is one down the street. They are odd here this year as they are just finishing shedding their foliage so I think they will bloom later. They never go bare here, they hold most of the leaves and then shed them when new growth starts. The other flowering size ones here aren't blooming yet.

[bubba]

Certainly cannot blame any fringe area's from attempting to grow this awesome tree.The California specimens appear to survive but I am not certain I would use the word Flourish.It is still amazing to see the ability of a Meditterean Climate to grow that which is Carribean and shows the "stretch the limits"at its best.

Sometime back,a poster from Arizona showed a progression of Delonix regia from points in Mexico to Northern Phoenix.I believe this Post was prior to the 2007 freeze.Did those trees make it through without damage?

[bubba]

Certainly cannot blame any fringe area's from attempting to grow this awesome tree.The California specimens appear to survive but I am not certain I would use the word Flourish.It is still amazing to see the ability of a Meditterean Climate to grow that which is Carribean and shows the "stretch the limits"at its best.

Sometime back,a poster from Arizona showed a progression of Delonix regia from points in Mexico to Northern Phoenix.I believe this Post was prior to the 2007 freeze.Did those trees make it through without damage?

[SubTropicRay]

They seem to be blooming even more this year because of the dry spring we've had.

[spockvr6]

They seem to be blooming even more this year because of the dry spring we've had.

Yes...there are a couple of larger ones in Palm Harbor that I pass frequently and they are ablaze! Very cool looking trees in bloom.

[DoomsDave]

They'll grow here, but they won't bloom well. It's too wet for them in the winter.

There is one not far from where I live, and it took a hard hit in 2007, but had revcovered.

Still no blossoms, though.

[surgeon83]

Allen, I think I saw one blooming in Galveston, located in a courtyard garden at UTMB. I couldn't get close enough to ID for sure, but it seemed to have lots of bright red flowers and the leaves look like those pictured if I remember correctly.

I can also confirm that I saw plenty in bloom in the Tampa Bay area last week.

[Juan-Carlos]

There is a main street here in Miami that has about 30-40 probably more of these trees planted one next to the other looks really nice. The trees are a nice size but not huge yet. It'll be spectacular in some years You can see one of these in bloom around every freaking corner in my area its a nice show of red every year!!

-Jc

Miami, Florida

[TikiRick]

The best flowering tree ever...a close second....the Queens Crape Myrtle, IMO.

[Mark@PalmBeach]

Arrrrrghhhhh!! Mine does not seem to ever bloom. It was wacked by Hurricane Frances and I cut it down to a 3 foot stump. It came back beautifully and is now quite large, but it never bloomed. I have it planted about 25 feet from a pond, might that have something to do with it. It never quite loses all it leaves either, so does that matter??