Vine - Lonicera

Trumpet Honeysuckle

Lonicera sempervirens

Height: 20 feet

Spread: 24 inches

Sunlight: full sun

Hardiness Zone: 5a

Description:

An old reliable vine favored for its showy reddish-orange tubular flowers with bright yellow throats in spring and repeating in summer; easy to grow, flowers best in full sun; ideal for covering an arbor, fence or trellis

Ornamental Features

Trumpet Honeysuckle features showy clusters of tomato-orange trumpet-shaped flowers with gold throats at the ends of the branches from late spring to mid summer. It features an abundance of magnificent red berries from mid to late fall. It has bluish-green deciduous foliage which emerges burgundy in spring. The oval leaves do not develop any appreciable fall colour.

Landscape Attributes

Trumpet Honeysuckle is a multi-stemmed deciduous woody vine with a twining and trailing habit of growth. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

This woody vine will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. It is a good choice for attracting butterflies and hummingbirds to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Trumpet Honeysuckle is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Hedges/Screening
General Garden Use