Tecomaria capensis Variegated Foliage Plants I'll be honest

I'll be honest

Jan Van den Top

lovely enough to grow even without flowers

this namesake of the 19th century Russian botanist

is preferred

Tecomaria capensis Variegated Foliage Plants I'll be honest(aka: Tecoma capensis) Tecomaria capensis hails from the South African Cape (east and west) into Natal, but according to all the books, should not be winter hardy for us. Thank goodness we keep our plants illiterate. Despite being a giant clambering evergreen shrub in warmer climates, where it remains woody, Tecomaria capensis is a well behaved, very drought tolerant deciduous perennial for us, surviving our single digit winter temperatures for at