Overview

Introduce a touch of natural elegance and vibrant color to your outdoor space with the stunning coral honeysuckle live plant (Lonicera sempervirens). This high-climbing, twining vine is a true garden gem, celebrated for its striking red and yellow trumpet-shaped flowers that are a beacon for hummingbirds. Known also as Trumpet Honeysuckle, this beautiful plant is semi-evergreen, offering year-round interest, especially in warmer climates. Growing anywhere from 3 to 20 feet long, it’s versatile enough to be trained on trellises, fences, or used as an attractive ground cover. Its glossy, paired leaves provide a lush backdrop to the prolific blooms, which are followed by bright-red berries, adding another layer of visual appeal. This particular offering is for a healthy, well-rooted coral honeysuckle live plant in a 1 gallon trade pot, ready to thrive in your garden.

Key Benefits

The coral honeysuckle live plant offers a multitude of benefits for any gardener looking to add beauty, wildlife, and ease of care to their landscape. Its showy blossoms and vigorous growth make it a standout choice.

• Attracts Pollinators: The vibrant red and yellow trumpet flowers are irresistible to hummingbirds, making your garden a lively sanctuary. This hummingbird vine plant is a natural magnet for these delightful birds.
• Stunning Visual Appeal: With its glossy, semi-evergreen foliage and abundant, colorful blooms, lonicera sempervirens vine provides continuous beauty from spring through fall, and often into winter in milder regions.
• Versatile Growth Habit: Whether you need a plant to climb a pergola, adorn a fence, or act as an attractive ground cover, this honeysuckle adapts beautifully to various garden roles.
• Low Maintenance: Once established, the coral honeysuckle live plant is relatively easy to care for, tolerating a range of soil conditions and requiring moderate water. It’s not overly aggressive like some other honeysuckle varieties.
• Seasonal Interest: Beyond its captivating flowers, the bright red berries that follow the blooms provide additional visual interest and a food source for birds, ensuring your garden remains engaging throughout the seasons.
• Adaptable to Various Conditions: This plant is known for its resilience, thriving in both sun and part shade conditions, and demonstrating tolerance to different soil types, including sandy, loamy, and clay.
• Cold Tolerant: The semi-evergreen honeysuckle is quite cold tolerant, making it a reliable choice for many USDA zones.

Plant Care & Growing Tips

Caring for your coral honeysuckle live plant is straightforward, allowing you to enjoy its beauty with minimal fuss. This robust vine thrives with adequate light and proper soil conditions. For optimal flowering, ensure it receives plenty of sun. While it can tolerate partial shade, a sunnier location will encourage more prolific blooms. Good air circulation is also important to prevent issues like powdery mildew.

When it comes to watering, the coral honeysuckle live plant prefers consistently moist soil, especially during dry periods, but it also tolerates poor drainage for short durations. Various soil types are suitable, including sandy, loamy, and clay soils, but a rich, well-draining soil is preferred. Both lime and acidic soils are generally acceptable. If your soil is particularly heavy, amending it with organic matter can improve drainage and fertility. Some structural assistance, such as a trellis or arbor, may be necessary to help the vine begin its climbing journey. Once it starts, it will readily twine and cover its support.

This climbing vine for garden benefits from occasional fertilization, particularly in spring, to support its vigorous growth and flowering. Use a balanced, slow-release fertilizer or a granular fertilizer formulated for flowering shrubs and vines. Pruning can be done after flowering to maintain shape, control size, and encourage bushier growth. Remove any dead or damaged branches to keep the plant healthy. The lonicera sempervirens vine is known for its general hardiness, but keeping an eye on moisture levels and ensuring good air flow will ensure it remains a vibrant and healthy addition to your landscape.

Size & Details

This offering is for one coral honeysuckle live plant shipped in a 1 gallon trade pot. These industry-standard nursery containers typically measure 6 inches high with a 6-inch circumference. While referred to as a 1 gallon pot, they actually hold approximately 0.664 gallons of growing medium. The plant you receive will be fully rooted and ready for planting, though its exact size may vary depending on the time of year, availability, and weather conditions. This fast-growing vine can reach a mature length of 3 to 20 feet, making it an excellent choice for covering structures or as a sprawling ground cover. Expect to see its characteristic red and yellow trumpet blooms from spring through summer, followed by bright red berries in the fall. The semi-evergreen honeysuckle provides semi-evergreen foliage, particularly in warmer regions, ensuring year-round interest.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: How big does this plant get? A: The coral honeysuckle live plant is a vigorous climbing vine that can reach lengths of 3 to 20 feet, depending on growing conditions and support. It can also be maintained as a ground cover.
• Q: What size pot does it come in? A: This plant is shipped in a 1 gallon trade pot, which is an industry-standard nursery container measuring approximately 6 inches high and 6 inches in circumference.
• Q: Is this an indoor or outdoor plant? A: The coral honeysuckle live plant is an outdoor plant, best suited for gardens, trellises, and fences where it can receive adequate sunlight and air circulation.
• Q: How much sunlight does it need? A: This plant thrives in full sun to part shade. For the most abundant blooms, it’s recommended to plant it in a location that receives ample direct sunlight.
• Q: Is this plant easy to care for? A: Yes, lonicera sempervirens vine is considered relatively easy to care for once established. It tolerates various soil types and requires moderate watering, preferring consistently moist conditions.
• Q: What condition will it arrive in? A: Your hummingbird vine plant will arrive as a fully rooted, healthy live plant in its nursery pot, carefully packaged to ensure its safe journey.
• Q: When is the best time to plant? A: While it can be planted throughout the growing season, spring to early summer is often ideal, allowing the plant to establish before extreme heat or cold.
• Q: Will it survive winter in my zone? A: Coral honeysuckle live plant is cold tolerant and known to be semi-evergreen, especially in southern regions. It is hardy in USDA zones 4-9.
• Q: Does it attract hummingbirds? A: Absolutely! The bright red and yellow trumpet-shaped flowers are a powerful attractant for hummingbirds, making it an excellent choice for a wildlife-friendly garden.
• Q: Can I use this as a ground cover? A: Yes, in addition to being a climbing vine, coral honeysuckle live plant can also be used effectively as an attractive and sprawling ground cover in sunny to partly shaded areas.