Texas Gardening: Tecoma esperanza yellow bells has not leafed out...., 1 by stephanietx

stephanietx wrote:
Don't give up hope! This is always the last one to leaf out for me. I noticed a couple of weeks ago that it finally had put out a wee little leaf. I don't cut mine back until I see the new growth because we almost lost it thespring after I'd cut it back in the fall. I mulch it VERY heavily in the fall with tons of leaves at its base to help it during the cold months.

Here's a pic of the wee little leaf from 3/30. I've since cut off all the dead branches from last year's growth and it has a nice leaf clump, but only on this one side of the plant. Will be interesting to see how it grows this year. I think I'll take cuttings of it and see if I can't get some rooted just in case this one doesn't make it through this winter.