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About Honeysuckle Species

Honeysuckle (Lonicera) vines easy to grow, vigorous, heat-tolerant, nearly indestructible. Flashy and fragrant flowers attracts hummingbirds Varieties of Honeysuckle suited to variety of applications. Common use: Allow to grow along trellis, fence framework. Grown as ground cover - used for erosion control. Vines bloom heavily in spring, summer. Honeysuckles thrive in containers. Honeysuckle prefers full sun, but will tolerate partial sun, and even some light, afternoon shade. Once established, Honeysuckle needs moderate watering, unless the summer is dry. If the planting area is properly prepared and mulched, Honeysuckle satisfied with light annual applicaton of a balanced fertilizer 10-10-10 at beginning of growing season, and once in middle of blooming season. Usually sold in 1-gal. containers beginning in spring. General requirements and care for Honeysuckles is about the same, whether plant is a vining type i.e. Coral Honeysuckle... Lonicera heckrottii, or a shrub variety i.e. Winter Honeysuckle... Lonicera fragrantissima; Some evergreen, while others are deciduous. The hardiness vary considerably with different hybrid varieties. Consult local garden center to find right plant to suit your needs and location. Rooting Honeysuckle: Rooting honeysuckle easy. The best time: when new growth starts to appear in spring, although if there is green growth, you can do it indoors most anytime of the year. Cut a length of green "soft wood" growth from the end of one (or several) of the vines, making sure to get several sets of leaves. Strip the leaves from the end of the cutting nearest the cut end. You should have one or two leaf nodes bare and one or two sets of leaves left on the vine. At this point you have a couple of options. One is to dip the plant in rooting hormone and place in damp potting or rooting soil. The other is to place cutting in vase of water and allow the roots to develope that way. If you go with water method, be sure to change the water regularly to prevent rot. You will see roots forming. When you have several good roots (an inch or so long) you can plant new plant!

Japanese Honeysuckle:

A trailing twining woody vine that can grow to more than 30 feet in length. Young stems often hairy; older stems are hollow with brownish bark. May peel off in shreds. Opposite leaves oval to oblong in shape and range from 1.5 to 3 inches in length. In much of Virginia, leaves of Japanese honeysuckle are semi-evergreen and may persist on vines year-round. Extremely fragrant, two-lipped flowers are borne in pairs. In axils of young branches, produced throughout the summer. Flowers range 1 to 2 inches in length and white with slight purple or pink tinge when young, changing white or yellow with age. The fruit, many-seeded, black, pulpy berry that matures in early autumn. Japanese honeysuckle distinct from two native honeysuckles; trumpet honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens), and wild honeysuckle (Lonicera dioica). Natives both bear red to orange-red berries, Uppermost pair of leaves is joined together.

Habitat of Japanese honeysuckle occurs primarily in disturbed habitats like roadsides, trails, fence rows, abandoned fields, forest edges. Invades native plant communities after natural or human induced disturbance such as logging, road building, floods, glaze and windstorms, or pest and disease outbreaks. Distribution of Japanese honeysuckle is native to eastern Asia. Introduced to cultivation in 1862 on Long Island NY, Japanese honeysuckle is now widely naturalized iN eastern and central United States. Japanese honeysuckle was, planted as ornamental ground cover, for erosion control, and for wildlife food and habitat. In Virginia, Japanese honeysuckle is naturalized state wide, being most abundant in piedmont and coastal plain forests. Threats:
Where light levels are optimal, such as in forest edges, canopy gaps or under sparse, open forest, newly established Japanese honeysuckle vines grow and spread rapidly. Suppressed vines growing in dense shade, however, are capable of rapid growth and spread when light levels in a habitat are increased by disturbance. In forests, Japanese honeysuckle vines spread both vertically and horizontally by climbing up tree trunks and/or by trailing or clambering over the forest floor and associated vegetation. Trailing vines produce stolons which root when they contact soil, aiding vegetative spread, persistence of species. Dense, strangling growths impact desirable vegetation by decreasing light availability within habitat, depleting soil moisture and nutrients, by toppling upright stems through sheer weight of accumulated vines. Negative effects of Japanese honeysuckle invasion include development of malformed tree trunks, suppression of plant growth, inhibition of regeneration in woody and herbaceous plants; alteration of habitats used by native wildlife.