The fiesta de quince años is a celebration of a girl’s 15th birthday, obviously with its cultural roots in Mexico and throughout Latin America. This girl is a quinceañera. While I am not exactly sure of the birthday, It was 15 years ago that Señorita Rosalita cleome won her first award. Today she has won 237 of the top awards in the country and forever changed the world when it comes to using the cleome in the landscape. Before the arrival of Señorita Rosalita, gardeners were concerned about growing cleomes because they have thorns that can be quite painful. They also don’t like the fact that cleomes reseed, thousands of seeds! Those two issues kept many from growing cleome, but that all changed 15 years ago.