Tecoma Species, Esperanza, Ginger-Thomas, Yellow Bells, Yellow Elder, Yellow Trumpetbush

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Greetings from Finland!

I fell in love with this plant Yellow Bells in the Canary Islands.
I collected a...Read More few seeds from Lanzarote, Canary Island in last winter and I put them into soil here in Finland. Now they grow very well and are now in the summer in outdoors. Now I hope that will survive over the winter inside, because here in Northern Scandinavia has a long dark winter. A few other Canary plant has survived over the winter and bloomed here during the summer months.

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This plant is all over the desert here in California. Just bought it to shade an established Sago that lost its natural shade.

Tecoma stans occurs naturally on rocky foothills in the mountains here in El Paso where it forms a small bush covered with yellow flowers...Read More from the middle summer until fall. It is very attractive, as well as xeric. The drawback is the plant dies down to the ground in winter (our temps drop as low as 0 degrees very rarely, and usually into the teens for a few days on a yearly basis) and requires until June or thereabouts to grow big enough to flower again. It therefore doesn't make a good stand-alone plant, as it requires waiting to be useful aesthetically. There are many commercial varieties which tend to be tall and narrow, often requiring support. Also not a good stand alone situation.

I just got this plant. Don't know much about it had a similar vine growing up with bigger flowers. Still in pot I will be planting it in ...Read Morethe yard soon. Love the flowers they are so pretty. I loved reading about what everyone has written about this beautiful plant and flower.

I just received some seeds and will plant in a pot, so I can cut it back and bring it in over Winter. That said, it is so gorgeous and n...Read Moreever stops blooming, takes easy water and hot days, bad soil. It just does not like long cold and wet winters. Great plant, long bloom season. My zone is 8b, hot, hot, cold, cold.

If there are others who live in Kamuela on the island of Hawaii there is a fine specimen of this small tree on Spencer Road in the middle...Read More of a private front yard.
It is the only one I have seen.

This lovely plant seems to be really at home in my Mesa, AZ neighborhood. We've cut ours back to keep it on the smaller size, but it blo...Read Moreoms around this time (April) and keeps blooming well into the fall. I just love it.

Tecoma Stans had a wide Natural range, and a few varieties. The native TX variety (Tecoma stans var. angustata) has more slender leaves,...Read More grows a little bit shorter and is much more drought-tolerant and cold-tolerant. I only lose a few inches @ the tips in the winter, so have stopped pruning it back to the ground. Look for an angustata variety for the same showy blooms but more drought and cold-tolerance.

Here in Tucson, just a little lower than the native elevation for this plant, we expect the plant to go down to the ground completely in ...Read Morethe winter if it gets cold or freezes. Pruning is simple--we either cut it to the ground or leave the sticks on through the winter and wait to see where they leaf out before pruning off the rest. Very drought tolerant, and will tolerate extra water to produce extra growth. Not picky about soils or exposures.

Starting from seed is pretty simple with this guy. I just toss half a dried bean in a pot and not long from then I have a few pop up, th...Read Morein them out later and in no time (and I mean no time really, a few months) you have a small tree. They do great in pots and in the ground.
In under a year I had 2 - 8 foot trees. I have seen them in Alice, Tx. grow over 15 feet high so be aware of that if you plant them near your house as they have a pretty tough root system.

This plant does really well with little care or water once established. It seems to propogate very easily too. When pruning I accidentall...Read Morey left a peice on the ground in the flowerbed and I was pleasantly surprised to find it has become another plant with no help from me.

I live on the line of zone 8-9 in Texas. My Esperanza Yellow Bells has done very well here. Beautiful plant. Hardy. However, last win...Read Moreter during a cold snap my cover blew off a large plant in the ground on the north side of the house and it froze back and did not come back. I have other plants however. My plants get very tall. It is difficult to cover them in winter. I think I need to prune them, but not sure. If anyone knows about pruning and winter care of these plants I'd like to hear. I'm not sure what variety I have.

With two hummingbird feeders hanging over this bush it’s keep busy all summer with hummers, butterflies, and bees of all types.

I love this plant! It has (so far) been trouble-free and thrives in our hot FL summer waether. The guy at the local nursery where I bou...Read Moreght it told me to keep the seed pods clipped off to encourage new blooms.

I started this plant from seeds I collected. The foliage is very attractive and the plant requires no special care. When Tecoma is in b...Read Moreloom it’s a head turner with bouquets of flowers that does not end. I have it right by my front door.

I have not grown this plant; however, I have observed it growing in its native environment. Yellow Elder, Trumpet Bush, Yellow Bells, Gin...Read Moreger-Thomas, Esperanza (Tecoma stans) is native to Arizona, Florida, New Mexico, Texas, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. It was introduced to Hawaii and has naturalized.

I have 3 of these plants in my garden and am thinking of ways to use it more. It tolerates Houston's climate beautifully. There is one in...Read More the area between the side walk and the street in front of a restaurant growing in rocky, poor soil and no shade ever. I dont know if anyone ever waters it and it just looks glorious in the summer heat. I have seed for the orange variety and will root some seedlings to use in my garden along with the beautiful yellow ones. I grew all mine from seed and it was easy. A really wonderful plant. One of mine has an underplanting of bloodleaf, begonias and zinnias and the other 2 have under plantings of Plumbago.

Kept this plant in a pot last year and it bloomed beautifully. The hummingbirds loved it. I think I should have given it some winter prot...Read Moreection. There are 3 seedlings that have sprouted in the pot. I hope they are the Yellow Bells. If I killed it off I plan on buying another.

I've grown this plant for a number of years in Houston. It's has not only survived our high heat and humidy, but it's thrived! It grows...Read More to between 8 and 10 feet tall and blooms non-stop until frost, survives drought and has no pest problems. I have it underplanted with blue plumbago and next to a picotee Duranta and the colors look wonderful together.

Perfomed very well for me in a container. Attracted both hummers and butterflies. I had the cultivar Esperanza and have collected seeds...Read More for next year and for trade. Will have to figure out a way to overwinter the mother plant which should not be difficult in zone 7b.

mine went into flower in the spring and has been flowering enthusiastically ever since and we are now in mid september. it requires no p...Read Morearticular care, and no pests seem to inhabit it. it's not too big and not too small to have an impact. the perfect, beautiful, flowering plant. if you can accommodate it, i highly recomend it.

anomina in southwest florida

This is a very showy plant, with clusters of vivid yellow flowers. In the summer, my esperanzas steal the thunder from all my other flow...Read Moreers. Have not had any problems with it at all.

This tree never grows very large, blooms all the year, and, if it´s not blooming, the bright green foliage will do it. It´s a perfect t...Read Moreree for any tropical and subtropical yard.