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Key characteristics

Family: Caprifoliaceae
Height: 3 to 6 feet
Width: 3 to 6 feet
Flower color: Creamy-white
Foliage color: Variegated dark green with yellow edges
Bloom time: Late spring
Light: Full sun to partial shade
Water: Regular
Maintenance: Prune as needed to control size and shape
Growing zone: USDA Hardiness Zones 6 to 9
Wildlife: Berries can attract birds

Shrubs

Lonicera ligustrina ‘Lemon Beauty’

Lemon Beauty Honeysuckle

Lonicera ligustrina 'Lemon Beauty' produces tiny creamy white flowers in spring, nestled among the foliage and followed occasionally by translucent pale purple berries in late summer to autumn. Small, glossy oval leaves have rich green centers surrounded by broad lemon-yellow to creamy yellow margins, creating bright evergreen color throughout the year. Slender, arching branches form a dense, finely textured mound, while the variegation becomes especially luminous in brighter garden settings.

Light

Full sun to partial shade

Water

Regular

Bloom time

Late spring

Find this plant

Works well in

Sun Gardens
Containers
Borders
Bird Gardens

Companion plants

Thyme · Switch grasses · Catmint · Penstemons · Coreopsis · Blanket flower

Design tip

Use ‘Lemon Beauty’ where its yellow-edged foliage can brighten a planting throughout the year. Repeat it as a low informal hedge for continuity, or allow its mounding branches to spill over the edge of a container for a softer, less structured effect.

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