Deciduous vineClimberSpecimenDeer resistantPollinatorsNativeFast growing

Coral Honeysuckle

Lonicera sempervirens

A well-behaved native vine with clusters of red-orange trumpet flowers from spring into summer that hummingbirds love, vigorous but not aggressive like some honeysuckles. It covers trellises, arbors and fences, takes salt in coastal gardens, and flowers best in full sun.

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Coral Honeysuckle: whole plant — Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Mature size: 15 × 4.5 ft; 4.5 × 1.4 m, tall × wide
Hardiness: Zones 4a–9b; USDA
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Water: Medium to moist
Blooms: Mar–Jul

Coral Honeysuckle at its mature size

A mature Coral Honeysuckle grows 10 to 20 feet tall and 3 to 6 feet wide, taller than most people.

Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.

Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension.

Through the year

What Coral Honeysuckle looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.

Dormant · Dec–Mar

Semi-evergreen: mostly bare twining stems with a few green leaves, a slight bluish cast on them; not gray.

In leaf · Apr, Jul–Nov

Twining stems with blue-green oval leaves, few or no flowers.

In flower · May–Jun

Clusters of slender coral-red tubular flowers with yellow insides.

Photos

Coral Honeysuckle: flowers — Flowers · Amos Oliver Doyle, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Coral Honeysuckle: detail — Detail · Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Growing Coral Honeysuckle

Grows well in: The Northeast, the Southeast, and the Midwest.
Growth rate: Fast
Good for: Climber, specimen, deer resistant, pollinators, and fast growing
Leaves: Drops its leaves in winter
Native to: Eastern United States

Spacing

VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Coral Honeysuckle, that’s about 4.5 ft apart, center to center.

Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.