How to grow coral honeysuckle – for a fuss-free flowering vine that hummingbirds can’t resist

Coral honeysuckle with orange blooms in a sunny garden border.

There are few climbing plants that deliver as much joy as coral honeysuckle. Not only does this fragrant vine produce masses of colorful coral-red blooms, but it is also a hummingbird magnet during spring and summer, and who wouldn't want to observe these miniature migrants flitting from flower to flower in the backyard?

Coral honeysuckle, or Lonicera sempervirens, is native to North America, growing across Texas, Florida and northwards to New York. What makes it valuable as a backyard vine is both its tolerance for part-shade as well as its cold hardiness. It is not fussy; this tough climber just gets on with it.