Field Guide / Native Plant
Native Plant
Esperanza
Tecoma stans · Yellow Bells
Esperanza — 'hope' in Spanish, and the name is not an accident — throws yellow trumpets all summer in the kind of heat that flattens everything with less nerve. Bees and hummingbirds work it nonstop, like a shift they can't afford to miss. A hard freeze knocks it flat; cut it back and it returns from the root, which is roughly what hope is for. 💛
Water
Low
Sun
Full
Blooms
Summer–fall
Wildlife
Bees · hummingbirds
Big yellow trumpets all summer on a heat-loving native shrub that seems genuinely puzzled by the concept of being too hot. Dies back in a hard freeze and returns from the root — mourn it in January, forgive it by May.
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