Introduction to Growing Mexican Honeysuckle

Series Summary

Gardening can be a fun and aesthetically pleasing way to help integrate your home with its surrounding environment. Using native and exotic plants, you can create a landscape that compliments your backyard and adds a sense of new life and freshness to your everyday routine. And no matter what climate you may live in, garden greenery is good for the environment, gets you outside and moving about, and teaches you just a little bit about life.

So everyone get out your green thumbs. In this free beginner gardening video series, get tips, advice, ideas and help for easy planting and fertilizing of your background garden. Learn how to put the right plant in the right spot, how deep to dig the hole and bury the roots, how to water properly, using a stake for plant stem support, what garden tools and equipment to use, and more. Our expert horticulturalist will give you a general course in creating the right environment for your new plants to flourish. Take notes, and then create the garden of your dreams.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Travis Steglich with Steglich Farm Supply in Bartlett, Texas. I'm here with Expert Village to make some cuttings actually some root cuttings of what it is called Mexican honeysuckle. It's perennial here in Texas and it's Texas native one of the deals about it is these blooms have an opened up. But you can see that they are in orange color an orange is a fairly rare color especially in the perennial area. Giving them kind of sheltered corner on the south side of the building this stuff will live and spread in soils real well. What we're going to do is go down here and basically take up some of the plant like so. You can see it has plenty of roots on it and there are several clowns here, we'll be able to separate like this and so we'll be able to get several plants out of each one of these that we dig."