I just love the spring and watching the yard come alive with color! Our honeysuckle vines are now blooming – and look at those beautiful colors! The orange trumpets with yellow centers against the dark green foliage is so eye catching. These blooms will often attract hummingbirds to your garden.
The trumpet honeysuckle produces orange-red flowers in the spring, and then will rebloom again during the summer.
These climbing ornamental vines are easy to grow. They thrive in sun or shade. They do best in well-drained soils, but will tolerate poor soils. They will need pruning in the spring, but they will regrow quickly the next year.
You can train them on a trellis or let the honeysuckle ramble as ground cover. We found this little church birdhouse at a store in Rocheport several years ago and it just seems like the perfect focal point amidst the flowering vines.
Enjoy the spring!
