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Hardiness: USDA Zone 4a: to -34.4 °C (-30 °F) USDA Zone 4b: to -31.6 °C (-25 °F) USDA Zone 5a: to -28.8 °C (-20 °F) USDA Zone 5b: to -26.1 °C (-15 °F) USDA Zone 6a: to -23.3 °C (-10 °F) USDA Zone 6b: to -20.5 °C (-5 °F) USDA Zone 7a: to -17.7 °C (0 °F) USDA Zone 7b: to -14.9 °C (5 °F) USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2 °C (10 °F) USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 °C (15 °F)
On Jul 26, 2009, Marlina from Blaine, MN (Zone 4b) wrote:
Way bigger than 15 foot as this picture shows . Hummingbirds absolutely are drawn . Have never seen it be invasive. Old plant most likely 20 years here.
On Jun 18, 2004, hummingbird3000 from New Prague, MN wrote:
We live in SE Minnesota, zone 4, and bought 2 of these in 1 gallon pots 3 summers ago. They were about 1-1/2 feet tall when we brought them home. They are now about 6 feet tall, and we have them trained on trellises. They are bushy and BEAUTIFUL and the flowers are very plentiful. I had to trim a bunch off the bottoms of the bushes as they were starting to look straggly. I tried propagating with wood and soft cuttings, the soft seemed to work, the wood did not. The hummingbirds also love them! I recommend if you want a fast growing showy bush (that needs a trellis or something to vine around). Also takes pruning very well if you want to keep it small.
On Aug 29, 2003, suncatcheracres from Old Town, FL wrote:
I would love to grow this beautiful honeysuckle here in Northcentral Florida, as I saw dramatic specimens of this plant growing in Atlanta, Georgia, but Southern Living Garden Book says it only does well down into the Lower South, which would be about zone 8a. I live in zone 8b, which is in the Coastal South. Southern Living also says it is a hybrid of L. sempervirens and L. hirsuta, and from the Northeastern USA. So I will have to console myself with the lovely Southern heirloom Lonicera simpervirens (what a lovely name!) also called coral honeysuckle here in Florida, which is a parent of 'Dropmore Scarlet,' but doesn't have the intense color of its child.
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This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
Castro Valley, California Citrus Heights, California Fresno, California San Jose, California Glastonbury, Connecticut Oak Lawn, Illinois Springfield, Illinois Greenville, Indiana Macy, Indiana South Bend, Indiana Adel, Iowa Minneapolis, Minnesota Saginaw, Minnesota Helena, Montana Kew Gardens, New York North Tonawanda, New York Norristown, Pennsylvania Wyoming, Rhode Island Rapid City, South Dakota Ruther Glen, Virginia Sterling, Virginia Mercer Island, Washington
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