Lonicera x brownii 'Dropmore Scarlet' (Honeysuckle 'Dropmore Scarlet')
Other names: Scarlet trumpet honeysuckle 'Dropmore Scarlet'
'Dropmore Scarlet' is a vigorous, semi-evergreen climber with ovate to rounded, blue-green leaves and whorled clusters of lightly fragrant, trumpet-shaped, bright scarlet flowers from midsummer into autumn, occasionally followed by red fruit.
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2m max. spread |
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4m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Lonicera japonica var. repens (Creeping Japanese honeysuckle)
Other names: Lonicera flexuosa
L. japonica var. repens is a vigorous, evergreen to semi-evergreen climber with purplish stems and purple-green leaves. In summer it bears clusters of strongly fragrant, white flowers flushed with red-purple on the outside. In autumn it bears black berries.
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1.5m max. spread |
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8m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Lonicera 'Fire Cracker' (Honeysuckle 'Fire Cracker')
Other names: Lonicera 'Firecracker'
'Fire Cracker' is a deciduous or semi-evergreen, twining climber with round, grey-green leaves and whorls of pink to orange-red flowers with yellow anthers in summer followed by round, red fruit in autumn.
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2m max. spread |
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2m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Lonicera sempervirens (Trumpet honeysuckle)
Other names: Coral honeysuckle
L. sempervirens is an ornamental, twining climber with long, paired, semi-evergreen leaves and clusters of red, tubular, trumpet-shaped flowers in summer followed by bright-red berries in autumn.
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1m max. spread |
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4m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Lonicera ciliosa (Orange honeysuckle)
Other names: Western trumpet honeysuckle
L. ciliosa is a large, vigorous, twining, deciduous climber with elliptic to ovate, dark green leaves, the terminal pair of leaves fused around the flower stem, and, from late spring into summer, whorled clusters of tubular, orange to orange-red flowers followed by translucent, orange-red fruit.
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6m max. spread |
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6m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Lonicera 'Mandarin' (Honeysuckle 'Mandarin')
Other names: Lonicera x tellmanniana 'Mandarin'
'Mandarin' is a vigorous, twining, deciduous climber with ovate, dark green leaves, bronze-flushed when young, and, in late spring and early summer, and intermittently into autumn, long, tubular, orange-red flowers with golden yellow throats.
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2m max. spread |
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6m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Lonicera x americana (American woodbine)
Other names: Evergreen honeysuckle, Lonicera grata
L. x americana is a twining climber with semi-evergreen foliage and stongly-scented cream and pink flowers in late summer.
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1.5m max. spread |
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8m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
L. henryi is a vigorous, evergreen climber with slender, ciliate, dark-green leaves and, in summer, whorls of two-lipped, red-flushed yellow flowers followed by purple-black berries in autumn.
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6m max. spread |
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9m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Lonicera tatarica (Tatarian honeysuckle)
Other names: Tartarian honeysuckle
L. tatarica is an upright, bushy, deciduous shrub with paired, ovate to lance-shaped, blue to dark green leaves and paired, tubular, 5-lobed, white to pink or red flowers borne along the shoots in late spring and early summer, followed by red to yellow-orange fruit.
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2.5m max. spread |
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4m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Lonicera japonica var. chinensis (Japanese honeysuckle)
Other names: Lonicera japonica 'Chinensis'
L. japonica var. chinensis vigorous, compact, twining, woody, evergreen to semi-evergreen climber with purple stems bearing ovate, dark green leaves and, from early summer to early autumn, strongly fragrant, tubular, white to pale yellow flowers with reddish-purple tubes. Flowers are sometimes followed by glossy, black fruit.
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4m max. spread |
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5m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
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