LONICERA. Honeysuckle. Widespread, Northern Hemisphere. Known primarily for just two or three species, this is a large and highly variable group of shrubs and vines. Their common features are paired, more or less oval leaves and tubular two-lipped flowers, often strikingly colored. The following will thrive with sun or light shade, most soils, and moderate to regular watering. Hardiness varies.

‘Dropmore Scarlet’. A fine hybrid of the trumpet honeysuckle, L. sempervirens. It is shrubby if free-standing, vining with support, and grows at a moderate pace. Its attractive bluish green leaves are nearly evergreen in mild climates, deciduous in cold winters. Many large, unscented scarlet flowers are clustered at the shoot tips from late spring to fall. Below 0^oF.

sempervirens ‘Leo’. Trumpet honeysuckle. Trumpet honeysuckle is a clambering shrub of moderate growth, with usually evergreen, smooth, dark green leaves, paler below. It has rather dense clusters of orange to crimson 2" blossoms atop a broad, closed pair of bracts which encircles the stem. This recent introduction is notable for its abundance of vivid red flowers. 0^oF. or less.