Peaches & Cream Fragrant Honeysuckle
| honeysuckle | vine |
It is a evergreen, perennial, fragrant, flowering vine, see how the Peaches & cream fragrant honeysuckle looks like in the garden and landscape.
Peaches & Cream Fragrant Honeysuckle 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, fragrant | ||||||||
| Life cycle | perennial, evergreen | ||||||||
| Sun needs | part shade, full sun | ||||||||
| Growth habit | climbing, trailing, twining, spreading | ||||||||
| Flowering period | spring, summer | ||||||||
| Height at maturity | 3 m | ||||||||
| Spread | 60 sm - 90 sm | ||||||||
| Spacing | 90 sm apart to cover fences or other structures | ||||||||
| Soil type | loamy, sandy, clay, silty | ||||||||
| Soil moist/drainage | well drained moist | ||||||||
| Soil PH | 5.5 - 8.0 (moderately acidic - moderately alkaline) | ||||||||
| Water needs | average | ||||||||
| Maintenance / care | low | ||||||||
| Resistance to | disease, drought, insect, mildew | ||||||||
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Peaches & Cream Honeysuckle also known as Lonicera periclymenum, common names honeysuckle, common honeysuckle, European honeysuckle, or woodbine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Caprifoliaceae native to much of Europe, North Africa, Turkey and the Caucasus. It is found as far north as southern Norway and Sweden.
Lonicera periclymenum is a vigorous deciduous twining climber, occasionally keeping its old leaves over winter. In the UK it is one of two native honeysuckles, the other being Lonicera xylosteum. It is often found in woodland or in hedgerows or scrubland. Peaches & Cream Fragrant Honeysuckle well resists against disease, drought, insect and mildew.
Peaches and Cream Honeysuckle has wragrant flower with color: purple-red buds open to pink andf yellow flowers fading to Light peach. Flowers attracts birds, butterflies, hummingbirds and visual attention.
After the flowering season has ended in late summer red and purple berries form that extend the color show, and which are a delight to the songbirds.
Peaches & Cream honeysuckle has everything we look for and want in a honeysuckle vine, but grows to only about 7 feet tall in 5 years and maybe 8 or 9 feet tall in 7 years.
Peaches & Cream honeysuckle vine does not cling to walls and other surfaces, however, it will grow up and on just about anything that provides its vines something to twine around. If you don't have a trellis, arch or other structure suitable for this vine to grow on, it can also be grown as an attractive mounding shrub or very pretty groundcover. Its smaller size makes it suitable for growing on a support in pots, planters and other containers, and in smaller gardens where space is limited without taking over the garden.
This vine produces more flowers and is more vigorous in full sun. In very hot climates the vine will appreciate some shade or filtered sun during the hottest part of the day in summer.
Peaches & Cream Fragrant Honeysuckle @ wikipedia.
Peaches & Cream Fragrant Honeysuckle in the landscape and gardening
