Mandarin Orange Honeysuckle Vine
| honeysuckle | vine |
It is a perennial, flowering vine, see how the Mandarin orange honeysuckle vine looks like in the garden and landscape.
Mandarin Orange Honeysuckle Vine is suitable for growing in USDA hardiness zones: 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b. Other winter zone scales for planting this honeysuckle are ANBG: 1, 2, 3; RHS: H7, H6, H5, H4, H3; PHZ: 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a.
Honeysuckle details
| Plant type | vine, berry, flowering | ||||||||
| Life cycle | perennial | ||||||||
| Sun needs | part shade, full sun, part sun | ||||||||
| Growth habit | upright, climbing, trailing, twining, spreading | ||||||||
| Flowering period | spring, fall | ||||||||
| Height at maturity | 8 m | ||||||||
| Spread | 60 sm - 90 sm | ||||||||
| Spacing | 90 sm - 2 m apart to cover fences or other structures | ||||||||
| Soil type | loamy, sandy, clay, silty | ||||||||
| Soil moist/drainage | well drained moist, well drained | ||||||||
| Soil PH | 5.5 - 8.0 (moderately acidic - moderately alkaline) | ||||||||
| Water needs | average | ||||||||
| Maintenance / care | low | ||||||||
| Resistance to | deer, disease, drought, insect, mildew | ||||||||
| Gardens types | xeriscape | ||||||||
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Mandarin Orange Honeysuckle Vine is arching shrubs or twining vines in the genus Lonicera, native to northern latitudes in North America and Eurasia.
Emerging blooms start off with purplish brown stems, and as it matures the large floral whorls turn bright mandarin orange on the outside with a yellow-orange throat. Lonicera hybrid Mandarin is non-invasive honeysuckle variety, is fast growing, and is an excellent choice for covering walls, fences, trellises, or pergolas. The flowers begin emerging in spring and continue well into fall and attracts birds, butterflies, bees and hummingbirds. Sterile, non-invasive plant does not reseed.
Mandarin Orange honeysuckle vine is a super-hardy free flowering deciduous vine that produces abundant clusters of showy, orange trumpet-shape flowers with golden throats and bright golden-yellow reflexed petals.
This vine does not cling to walls and other surfaces, however, it grow up and on just about anything that provides its vines something to twine around. It can also be grown as an attractive mounding shrub or very pretty groundcover.
Mandarin Honeysuckle vine is easily grown in average, moist but well-drained soils and full sun to light shade. The vine produces more flowers and is more vigorous in full sun (at least 6 hours of direct sunlight per day). It is quite drought tolerant when established and hardy in USDA Zones 4a-9b, so it suitable for low water needs Xeriscape gardens.
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Mandarin Orange Honeysuckle Vine in the landscape and gardening
