Yellow Bells                                                                

Tecoma stans   

‘Gold Star’ (tea-COMA stans)                                                            

Annual Sun                              Height 4’ Spread: 3’                             Spacing: 3’-4’

HABIT:  Showy selection of a bushy native. Blooms all summer with dramatic yellow flowers.

CULTURE: Although technically a shrub, normally treated as a summer annual. Will perennially in the southern half of the state, especially in an organic program.

USES:  Large color plant for summer.

PROBLEMS:   Not very winter hardy.

NOTES:           A&M has recently made this plant a Texas Superstar, but it’s a native that has been around a long time.