This sterile hybrid has performed adequately for me for many years in Boston Z6a. Gives occasional repeat bloom in partial shade, though ...Read MoreL. sempervirens blooms more under the same conditions (dappled shade). It has no fragrance that I can detect. It does not fruit or seed.
Most sources say this cultivar is hardy in Z3.
The Royal Horticultural Society has given this hybrid cultivar its coveted Award of Garden Merit.
The young foliage is tinted deep purple, but it greens up fairly quickly.
Widely available in commerce. US Plant Patent # 11,083. Propagation without permission is illegal.
Some sources say this hybrid is L. x brownii crossed with L. tragophylla, and others say it's L. x brownii crossed with L. x tellmaniana (itself a hybrid between L. tragophylla and L. sempervirens).
My honeysuckle Mandarin is in a 5-gallon flowerpot on a third storey, free-hanging balcony in Berlin, Germany. It has survived 3 Berlin w...Read Moreinters this way (every spring I anxiously await the first growth!). I would compare Berlin winter to winter in Washington, DC or Richmond, VA. It tends to hover around freezing with occasional drops into deep subfreezing temperatures. I am nonetheless impressed that it survives in a pot on a cement slab with second-storey cold air beneath it.
here in z. 6, this vine is vigorous to the point of nearly being invasive. It grows 20 ft. a year on the trellis we want it on, and anot...Read Moreher 20 ft underground to where we don't want it. Not fragrant.
'Mandarin' honeysuckle is a University of British Columbia introduction. Of the original cross, 100 seeds were sown, of which 98 looked ...Read Moreidentical to L. tragophylla...only 2 seedlings appeared to be actual hybrids between both parents! 'Mandarin' is actually hardy to zone 4..maybe even 3...my brother has a stunning specimen in Calgary, Alberta, where temps drop to -35 C. The original hybridizer of 'Mandarin' is now the director of the Memorial University Botanical Garden in Newfoundland.
This is a hybrid between Lonicera brownii 'Dropmore Scarlet' and L. tragophylla. It has European Plant Breeders Rights attached so it pos...Read Moresibly has other patents too.
This sterile hybrid has performed adequately for me for many years in Boston Z6a. Gives occasional repeat bloom in partial shade, though ...Read More
My honeysuckle Mandarin is in a 5-gallon flowerpot on a third storey, free-hanging balcony in Berlin, Germany. It has survived 3 Berlin w...Read More
Should be re-named Aphid, not special enough to warrant the maintenance . I returned it for a refund .
Good vigor and outstanding color, but I will probably replace this plant. It is a magnet for aphids....most of the bloom is ruined every year.
here in z. 6, this vine is vigorous to the point of nearly being invasive. It grows 20 ft. a year on the trellis we want it on, and anot...Read More
'Mandarin' honeysuckle is a University of British Columbia introduction. Of the original cross, 100 seeds were sown, of which 98 looked ...Read More
This is a hybrid between Lonicera brownii 'Dropmore Scarlet' and L. tragophylla. It has European Plant Breeders Rights attached so it pos...Read More