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Please help me choose a honeysuckle!

vangard
15 years ago

Hello,

I am trying to decide on the best honeysuckle for a largish, south-facing trellis. I definitely want something really showy with bright, hot colours. Companion plants will be Cocosmia Lucifer, bright orange milkweed, yellow and red day lilies, yellow asiatic lilies and purple verbena bonariensis (this section of my garden is definitely not subtle!).

I am considering lonicera heckrottii gold flame, lonicera brownii dropmore scarlet or a lonicer mandarin. However, it's so hard to tell the real colours from the pictures I can find. I guess my priorities are:

Big, showy flowers in hot colours

Attracts humming birds

Blooms over a long period

Mildew and aphid resistant (or as resistant as possible)

Any experience or recommendations would be most welcome.

Thank you!

Catherine.

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