Box Leaf Honeysuckle Bush (Lonicera Pileata) - 3 Gallon Pot
$62.98
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Box Leaf Honeysuckle Bush (Lonicera Pileata) - 3 Gallon Pot
$62.98
Sale price
$62.98
Regular price
$70.00
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Description
Box Leaf Honeysuckle
Lonicera pileata
Other Names: Privet Honeysuckle, Prostrate Honeysuckle
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6a-8b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Evergreen Shrub
Height at Maturity: 2 to 3' depending on pruning
Width at Maturity: 5 to 8' depending on pruning
Spacing: 3 to 4 feet for solid hedges or solid groupings or mass plantings; 10' or more for space between plants
Spacing: 3 to 4 feet for solid hedges or solid groupings or mass plantings; 10' or more for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form: Mounding, Arching, Spreading
Growth Rate: Moderate
Flower Color: Yellowish White
Flower Size: Tiny
Flowering Period: Spring and Summer
Flower Type: Single
Fragrant Flowers: Yes
Foliage Color:
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: Yes
Berry Color: Purple
Sun Needs: Full Sun, Morning Sun w/Dappled or Afternoon Shade, Afternoon Sun w/Morning Shade, All Day Lightly Filtered Sun
Water Needs: Average, Low in shade when established
Soil Type: Clay (well-drained), Loam, Sandy, Silt
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Moist But Well Drained, occasionally dry
Soil pH: 4.5 - 8.0 (Acid to Alkaline)
Maintenance / Care: Low, Medium for clipped formal hedge
Attracts: Butterflies, Beneficial Pollinators, Birds, Hummingbirds, Visual Attention
Resistances / Tolerances: Deer, Drought(moderate in shade), Erosion, Insect, Rabbit, Salt Tolerant, Shearing
Description
The Box Leaf Honeysuckle, Lonicera pileata, is a low-growing evergreen to semi-evergreen shrub with horizontal branches that will root in and slowly spread over time, making it a great choice as a groundcover on banks or slopes or low borders or natural or clipped formal hedge in landscape borders and garden beds. Its small, boxwood-like dark green leaves provide a unique texture in the landscape, and its tiny flowers are a wonderful honeysuckle-like fragrance during spring and summer. The butterflies, hummingbirds, and beneficial pollinators are attracted to the flowers, and the birds will love the purple berries that follow. It is salt tolerant, easy to grow, and adaptable, so it does well in coastal and seashore plantings. It is drought tolerant once established if grown in the shade, but it will appreciate some supplemental water during a drought when growing in full sun.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing 2 to 3 feet tall and 5 to 8 feet wide depending on pruning, the Boxleaf Honeysuckle is ideal for use as a textural and sensory accent in small garden spaces or as a grouping or mass planting on slopes and embankments. Also excellent in groupings or as a low border where space allows in sunny or shady landscape borders and garden beds or home foundation plantings. A fine addition to Asian or English gardens, formal gardens, topiary gardens, fragrance gardens, butterfly and hummingbird gardens, bird gardens, cottage gardens and shady Xeriscape gardens (low water needs).
Suggested Spacing: 2 to 4 feet apart for solid hedges or groupings; 10 feet or more for space between plants
Growing Preferences
Box Leaf Honeysuckle is very easy to grow in a moist but well-drained soil of average fertility and full sun or part shade. It is drought tolerant in shade but will require some supplemental water during drought in full sun. In hot summer climates it will prefer some filtered sun or shade during the afternoon hours. It is slat tolerant so excellent for coastal gardens. It responds very well to shearing for formal hedges. In our gardens, we've found it to have excellent resistance to pests and disease.
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