Here’s a colorful, tropical, native ornamental for your garden that doesn’t require dangerous pesticides or chemical fertilizers, nor lots of irrigation in the dry season. It’s called Yellow Bells or ...

What bougainvillea is to pink, red, and purple, esperanza (Tecoma stans) is to yellow and orange. It is easy to see why Dan Olinger, who gardens in Rialto, refers to the Yellow Bells variety of ...

I expected the yellow bells plant I installed to mature into a large shrub – say, 8 to 10 feet tall. But within several years the plant – aka yellow elder and esperanza – grew into a ...

Because it tends to die back in winter, Tecoma stans does not usually get very large in the Sonoran desert climate, growing up to 6 feet wide and 6 feet high. It’s hardy to about 25 F and will die ...

Here’s a colorful, tropical, native ornamental for your garden that doesn’t require dangerous pesticides or chemical fertilizers, nor lots of irrigation in the dry season. It’s called Yellow Bells or ...