PlantFiles: Cape Honeysuckle
Tecoma capensis 'Salmonea'

This plant was doing very well but got too big for the spot was in near the house so I moved it to a more open location. Unfortunately we had a horrible winter that year where it got to about 25 degrees for two weeks! This plant died back to the ground and looked dead, but it revived. Then we had the hottest summer on record and it almost died again, followed by terrible drought this fall which also nearly killed it! I gave it extra water and it has rebounded yet again, though it is much smaller than it used to be. (No doubt in my mind that we are having terrible climate change!) Tough plant, thank goodness. Now if the weather will co-operate perhaps the plant will grow to its' former loveliness. If it gets hammered again this winter I will move it to a more protected location.

I have not grown this plant myself, but have seen it growing in my locale. It will freeze to the ground during a hard freeze and return from the roots in the spring. In warmer Zones, its size will be larger due to its not freezing back. It is a more compact and less invasive Cape Honeysuckle with salmon to orangish-salmon colored blooms. It can be a grown as a vine with support or it can be maintained as a hedge with pruning.