We aim to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place. (The Grumpy Gardener is ambivalent about it.) Discover the right plants for your garden. Winter honeysuckle can extend the growing season well into the colder months. Often the flowers are followed by small red or orange berries in the fall. What’s your favorite fragrant vine to plant? Climbing honeysuckles (Lonicera) are a classic climbers for a romantic cottage garden. although if there is green growth, you can do it indoors most anytime of the year. The honeysuckle may be the queen of flowering vines, twining with abandon around arbors and archways, trellises and tree trunks, filling the air with their intoxicating scent. In addition to the blooms, the vines also have dark green leaves. They’re able to climb up surfaces and structures and can also be used as ground cover. Please help us improve. The other method is to place the cutting in a vase of water and allow the roots to develope that way. Lonicera xbrownii ‘Mandarin’ Sun-kissed flowers the color of mandarin oranges look dazzling against a backdrop of foliage that emerges coppery bronze in spring and turns dark green later in the season. Honeysuckle seeds can be sown directly in the garden in early spring or in the fall. containers beginning in early spring. Climbing honeysuckle. It’s covered in dazzling ruby-red flowers all summer long and well into fall. If you go with the water method, be sure to change the water regularly to prevent rot. Each of these varieties is considered invasive, and prohibited in many regions. Get planting advice, garden design tips and trends, monthly checklists for your area, product specials and more in our weekly newsletter. Honeysuckle vines come in many different varieties. Overview Information Honeysuckle is a plant that is sometimes called “woodbine.” The flower, seed, and leaves are used for medicine. Mandarin Honeysuckle Vine - Perennial - Lonicera - 2.5" Pot. In warmer climates, the leaves remain evergreen; in cooler growing zones, winter interest is provided by an abundance of orange-red berries. Dark wine-red berries follow in the fall. Honeysuckle season is typically May through midsummer, with some varieties blooming into autumn. Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) is an extremely invasive honeysuckle with very fragrant flowers. Lonicera sempervirens ‘Dropmore Scarlet’A lovely hybrid especially hardy in colder climates (down to Zone 3), producing scarlet-red blooms from June until the first frost. Deciduous or evergreen, climbing honeysuckles (Lonicera) have thin, flexible stems that twine around their supports. FREE Shipping. More about the newsletter. It’s native to the eastern United States, and ruby-throated hummingbirds love it.