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Caprifoliaceae
Woodbine
Lonicera periclymenum
Also known as Caprifolium periclymenum, Virginia creeper, Periclymenum vulgare, Honeysuckle
Native Plants · Honeysuckle · Climbing-Vine · Fragrant · Evening-Bloomer · Vigorous · Pruning · Support · Hummingbird · Moth-Pollinated
Honeysuckle woodbine is a vigorous climbing vine with intensely fragrant evening flowers that attract moths and hummingbirds. It requires regular watering and benefits from annual pruning to control its enthusiastic growth. Provide sturdy support as this vine can become quite substantial over time.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Water regularly to keep soil consistently moist but well-draining · Every 5-7 days during growing season
- Maintenance
- Moderate
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 5–5.5
- Temperature
- -30°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 4a-10b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 2 ft – 5 ft
- Spread
- 6 ft
- Spacing
- 36 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Falkland Is., France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Maine, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ontario
- Attracts
- Hummingbirds, Moths, Bees
Sources: trefle, usda
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