How to Grow Trumpet Honeysuckle

Trumpet Honeysuckle is a native vine with beautiful red to bright yellow flowers. This vine can grow up to 20 feet long with flowers that range from 1 to 2 inches in length. Trumpet Honeysuckle will start to bloom mid-spring or sometimes later. Flowering time for this vine lasts through the summer and is a wonderful source of nectar for hummingbirds. Bees, butterflies and birds also are attracted to this vine. Growing Trumpet Honeysuckle can be relatively easy if you follow these simple steps.

Things You'll Need

• Individual containers
• Garden soil
• Pebbles
• Trowel
• Gardening gloves

Instructions

Grow From a Seed

1. Prepare your seeds. Purchase a packet of Trumpet Honeysuckle seeds from your local nursery. Soak them in water overnight.

2. Plant your seeds in individual cups filled with garden soil. Plant the seeds in late winter if you want to transplant to your garden in the spring. Poke holes in the bottom of the cups for water drainage.

3. Water regularly and make sure they get plenty of sunlight. Put them in a windowsill.

4. Acclimate your plants to the outdoors before you transplant them into your garden. Set them outdoors for a few hours every day, increasing the time each day for a week.

5. Transplant the Trumpet Honeysuckle to your yard when the vines reach 6 to 8 inches in length.

Plant Your Trumpet Honeysuckle

1. Purchase a Trumpet Honeysuckle from a local nursery if you did not grow one from seed. Find one with healthy green leaves that is already blooming. You also can look for an online nursery that will ship one to you.

2. Choose where you would like to put your vine. Full sun or part shade is best. The vine will do well in the shade but it needs the sun to bloom. The Trumpet Honeysuckle is a climbing vine, so plant it next to a fence, trellis or arbor.

3. Plant your Trumpet Honeysuckle by digging a hole 6 to 8 inches deep, depending on the size of your vine. Fill the hole with loamy garden soil and be sure that the roots are completely covered.

Tips & Warnings

• Plant multiple vines 4 to 6 feet apart.

• Put a few pebbles at the bottom of your hole before adding the Trumpet Honeysuckle to ensure good water drainage.

• You may need to attach your vine to a stake until it gets big enough to attach to the fence, trellis or arbor.

• Parts of this plant are poisonous if ingested.