How Grow Climbing Honeysuckle Vines | Gardener's Path

With its honey-sweet fragrance, colorful blossoms, and graceful vining growth habit, it’s easy to fall in love with honeysuckle.

So many people have a cherished memory of sipping the sweet nectar from the flowers, or reveling in the perfumed summer air.

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But these days, you’re just as likely to hear about the not-so-sweet side of honeysuckles as you are about the memories that the scent of the flowers bring.

Certain species of honeysuckle, while lovely in their native habitat, have become invasive nuisances that are wreaking absolute havoc in some areas.

In this guide, we’ll help you pick varieties that won’t cause trouble down the road. We’ll also help you plant and care for your honeysuckles so you can enjoy all that they have to offer.

Up ahead, we’ll cover the following:

If you can’t wait to get your hands on some honeysuckle, then read on!

Honeysuckles are flowering shrubs and vines in the Caprifoliaceae family.

There are dozens of species, but only a handful that are grown in home gardens, and most of those come from the Lonicera genus, with some belonging to the Diervilla genus as well.

The plants are native to temperate zones across the northern hemisphere. You can find them throughout Eurasia and North America.

When it comes to vining types, trumpet or coral (Lonicera sempervirens), Japanese (L. japonica), sweet or Italian (L. caprifolium), Burmese (L. hildebrandiana), woodbine or European (L. periclymenum), Morrow’s (aka Amur) (L. morrowii), goldflame (L. heckrottii), and evergreen (L. henryi) are the most commonly found