Description
Honeysuckle is one of the most fragrant vines you can grow – tubular yellow flowers, often flushed with cream and red, perfume the evening air through summer and draw hummingbirds by day and moths by night. A vigorous, easy climber for fences, arbours and trellis.
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- Intensely sweet fragrance, strongest in the evening
- Long tubular flowers that hummingbirds visit repeatedly
- Vigorous but easy-going climber for fences and arbours
- Blooms over a long season, early summer into autumn
- Often followed by red berries valued by birds
Growing guide
- Cold treatment: 4-6 weeks cold moist stratification improves germination
- Sow: surface sow and press in – light aids germination
- Germination: 14-30 days at 18-21 C (65-70 F)
- Spacing: 1.5-2 m (5-6 ft) apart with a trellis or support to twine on
- Light: full sun to part shade
- Hardiness: USDA zones 4-9; prune after flowering to keep tidy
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