Bird Watching: Awful Bird Pics Vol. 11, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Lily, that tree with the yellow blooms is Senna bicapsularis, commonly referred to as "Christmas Senna". I got it as a little rooted cutting from my backyard neighbor about two years ago. She breaks off pieces and sticks them right in the ground and they root ... I can't tell you how many hundreds of cuttings I've tried to root from this tree the past year and not one took! I've tried using high quality compost, regular bagged store bought potting soil, using rooting hormone, no hormone, sticking them in the sandy soil in the yard, in good soil in the yard ... nothing has worked for me. It begins to bloom the end of October every year and will bloom until late December.

This is what it looked like on Nov. 15, 2008 ... so heavy with blooms it was weighing the branches down to the ground!