| I found an interesting comment about Cape Honeysuckle on davesgarden. I thought the part about it being able to be trained into a tree shape sounded like something I would like. Comments:
It is a mistake, I think, to believe that this plant (Tecomaria sp.) is truly a honeysuckle (Lonicera sp.). It has the common name of Cape Honeysuckle only because the flowers somewhat resemble a honeysuckle blossom, but the Cape Honesuckle is more of a hard stemmed, non-twining shrub. It can be pruned to a tree-like shape as it matures. I also found in the databse on Daves Garden where it appears that Coral Honeysuckle does need to be watered but Cape Honeysuckle can be a xeriscape plant. Since our soil is gumbo and adjacent to a neighbor who likes to freely run their automated irrigation system, keeping our adjacent soil quite damp ( and inhibiting the flowering on her own climbing rose and bougainvillea), I think I may go with the Coral Honeysuckle. Hope this helps. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Daves Garden Cape Honeysuckle
