Trumpet Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens)

Trumpet Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens)Woody, North American twining climber Description: Long, tubular flowers are rich, scarlet orange outside and yellowish orange inside, produced in clusters in late spring and sporadically through summer; foliage is dark green above and bluish green beneath; forms red berries in fall that are attractive to birds Habit: Grows 12 to 20 feet high Culture: Prefers fertile, moist but well drained, humus rich soil and full sun to light shade Hardiness: USDA

The simple neoclassical fretwork on the sides and back gives it great visual distinction

The decade of the 1790s has been called the "age of passion"

Introduction by Roberto González Echevarría

spreading by underground running roots

Jefferson Documented

likened himself to a figure of old - "the most blessed of the patriarchs

Description: Bears open clusters of lavender blue to pale violet and white flowers

or keepsakes

urn-shaped flowers cover the tree like a lacy veil in mid to late summer

gray foliage

Thomas Jefferson sketched the classic profile of this goblet and had two made by the silversmith Claude-Nicolas Delanoy

ISBN-13:  978-0691137711