Lonicera sempervirens 'Leo' Deer-Resistant at home as a lawn

at home as a lawn specimen

The plant was found as a seedling on Cape Cod by Rekha Morris of Pendleton

The plant is a form of Osmanthus heterophyllus

Growing a nursery-raised plant is a small act of conservation for an increasingly uncommon Southwestern native

over handsome gray-green

Lonicera sempervirens 'Leo' Deer-Resistant at home as a lawnLonicera sempervirens 'Leo' is the coral honeysuckle at its free flowering best, a selection of the native red honeysuckle that covers itself in bright red, yellow throated trumpets over an unusually long season. The tubular flowers pour nectar for ruby throated hummingbirds, which find the vine as irresistible as gardeners do, and the blue green leaves, some fused right around the stem, make a cool foil for all that heat. Honesty compels a small