Dropmore Scarlet Honeysuckle Plants

Dropmore Scarlet Honeysuckle Plants

'Dropmore Scarlet' Honeysuckle has brilliant orange-scarlet tubular flowers from midsummer through autumn. It's less vigorous than other honeysuckle varieties and will need support.

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Growing Dropmore Scarlet

It's good for cottage gardens, informal situations and is for growing over low walls, into pergolas or on a trellis against a sunny wall.

It'll grow in any reasonably fertile, moisture retentive soil that doesn't get waterlogged. It'll be fine in partial shade, but its flowering season will shorten compared to being in full sun.

It should be pruned by 1/3rd after flowering.

Being less vigorous than other honeysuckles it'll grow quite happily with other climbers and would look spectacular with a purple clematis, where the contrast of colour and flower shape will complement both plants. Both the clematis and the Lonicera can be pruned back in autumn and left to scramble.

Features

• Bushy deciduous or semi-evergreen grey/green foliage
• Beautiful orange/scarlet trumpet flowers July to September
• Will grow to an eventual height and spread of 4m
• Little or no scent
• Full hardy
• Needs support
• Sun or partial shade

Plant Care

Lonicera x brownii 'Dropmore Scarlet' is generally disease free but may suffer a little from mildew in hot dry spells.

History & Trivia

Lonicera varieties, named after the 16th century German botanist, Adam Lonicer, vary enormously. Native to the Northern Hemisphere, they're all hardy and vigorous climbers and, considering the habit of our native Woodbine, suit cottage garden situations.

Sometimes listed as Lonicera × brownii 'Fuchsioides' or Lonicera sempervirens 'Dropmore Scarlet'.