Lonicera (Honeysuckle)
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Including Honeysuckle shrub Serotina and the Early Dutch Honeysuckle

Lonicera (shrubs)

Honeysuckle

Grateful for fertile soil, our easy-to-grow Lonicera are hardy and long-lived. They possess smooth-edged opposite leaves and entertain an abundance of showy, whorled blooms.

Lonicera periclymenum ‘Serotina’  

Late Dutch Honeysuckle

Samuel Pepys called it the trumpet flower and wrote, “The bugles blow scent instead of sound.” ‘Serotina’ bears multitudes of spidery-looking, fuchsia-colored buds, which open into pink, sweet-smelling bugles that later fade to a creamy salmon color. You can prune this vigorous semideciduous vine to make it more shrublike or let its bluish green foliage climb into the branches of a Cercidiphyllum.

Blooms June–September.

Size: 6'–8' high x 4' wide; hardy to zone 6.

AVAILABLE LATE JUNE 2013

Lonicera periclymenum ‘Serotina’ (S-0350)
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Lonicera (trees and vines)

Honeysuckle

Lonicera periclymenum ‘Belgica’    

Early Dutch Honeysuckle

Heralding summer, this vigorous sweetly perfumed twiner blooms earlier than most Honeysuckles and is set apart by tubular flowers, whose interiors change color as they mature amid semideciduous green oval leaves. Sprightly deep pink clusters of long slender curling buds open into large crimson bugles with creamy white centers, which later showcase bright yellow and red shades.

Especially fragrant at the end of the day and grateful for fertile soil, easily grown ‘Belgica’ can be pruned to develop a shrubby habit or be encouraged to ramble up walls, trellises, pillars, the branches of large shrubs or a Cercidiphyllum. Medium Band.

Blooms May – August.

Size: 6'–8' high & spreading; hardy to zone 5.

AVAILABLE LATE JUNE 2013

Lonicera periclymenum ‘Belgica’ (T-0268)
Each $9.75
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