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The Firecracker Honeysuckle

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Lonicera x heckrottii

Firecracker Honeysuckle - Lonicera x heckrottii
Firecracker Honeysuckle – Lonicera x heckrottii

With fragrant flowers and a vigorous growth habit the Firecracker Honeysuckle makes a good choice for covering up fences and outbuildings.

The flowers of this hybrid plant are large and spidery, a mixture of red, pink and golden yellow. Although this is a climbing plant, it can also be trained and pruned into a small bushy shrub.

Try growing this free flowering plant amongst other climbing plants that flower at different times of the year. You can also train Lonicera x heckrottii along a fence and prune it to make a flowering hedge.

How To Grow The Firecracker Honeysuckle – Basic Care

Best in a humus rich well drained soil, the Firecracker Honeysuckle will reach 3 to 5 metres in height unless pruned.

Choose a position where the root system is in part shade and the plant itself can grow into the sun. It is a plant that will grow in shade, lower flowering may be limited in deep shade.

Once established this is a reasonably drought tolerant plant and it is a less aggressive in growth habit than some others.

Pruning Firecracker Honeysuckle

Prune after flowering to maintain a more compact growth habit.

Summary Information

  • Botanical Name – Lonicera x heckrottii
  • Common Name – Firecracker Honeysuckle or Firecracker Lonicera
  • Position – Full sun to light shade
  • Soil – Humus rich well drained.
  • Flowers – Large spidery Red Ping and Gold, fragrant.
  • Flowering time – Summer
  • Foliage – Mid green
  • Growth Rate – Medium to Fast.
  • Frost tolerant – Yes
  • Drought tolerant – Yes, once established.

Available for sale from the following nurseries


White House Nursery
WHITE HOUSE NURSERY - Jess Exiner & Peter Harris
412 James Lane, Fern Hill VIC. 3458 - Phone 0419002651
Large range of Rare plants, Climbers, Bulbs, Perennials Fruit Trees, Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. Available both Retail and by Mail Order 
www.whitehousenursery.com.au

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