5yr Native Tree Challenge - Zanduh’s Lonicera sempervirens (Trumpet Honeysuckle)

[zanduh]

Unlike the invasive asian honeysuckles, the trumpet honeysuckle is native to our area and I can find this woody vine on a lot of hikes that I do here and in neighboring states. The red flowers are great for attracting humming birds, bees, and butterflies.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Unlike the invasive asian honeysuckles, the trumpet honeysuckle is native to our area and I can find this woody vine on a lot of hikes that I do here and in neighboring states. The red flowers are great for attracting humming birds, bees, and butterflies.

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Nice!!

I’ve been working some native Lonicera... they have a different.. “flow”.. or “series of events”..

I’ve also been working with Lonicera’s cousin, Symphiocarpus Albus.. or snowberry... they both behave almost exactly the same...

 

[zanduh]

Any suggestions on a good repotting/root work time? Since their flowering period is later I think I should treat it more like a normal deciduous and repot in the early spring. Being a fast growing vine I think I should be fine doing some major cutting back down the road.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Any suggestions on a good repotting/root work time? Since their flowering period is later I think I should treat it more like a normal deciduous and repot in the early spring. Being a fast growing vine I think I should be fine doing some major cutting back down the road.

Any root disruption, I have done in spring/late winter.

Be careful, Lonicera in the wild will kill off competing “leaders”.. so I assume this happens in pots, too.

But overall, they have been seen to withstand SUBSTANTIAL abuse.

Seems like your “thinking” process is arranged correctly.

 

[zanduh]

Quick Update: The leader vines are growing pretty rapidly so i’ve had to put in taller tomato stakes to keep the vines growing upward since they started growing over 2 feet horizontally and were wrapping around nearby bonsai branches. Also coming in really quickly was the first new set of coral flowers that were not at all present when I picked up this vine a couple weeks ago.