Plant Information
Lonicera nitida Lemon Beauty
Scientific Name: Lonicera nitida 'Lemon Beauty'
Common Name: Lemon Beauty Box Honeysuckle
Hardiness Zone: 7b - 11
Hardiness Degree: 10°F (-12.2°C)
Blooming Season: Summer
Plant Habit: Mounded
Characteristics: Rabbit Resistant, Colorful/Attractive Foliage, Low Maintenance, Frost Tolerant
Water: Medium
Fertilize: Once a month
Spacing: 12 - 24" (30 - 61cm)
Height: 18 - 30" (46 - 76cm)
Width: 18 - 30" (46 - 76cm)
Exposure: Sun
General Information: Easy to grow woody clumper covered with small narrow green leaves, each with a nice golden border. Easy to prune, this plant works well in mass hedging, borders or containers. In spring, the new growth has an attractive purplish brown cast. Grows to 3 feet tall.
Attractive shrub with mounded habit and eye-catching, colorful foliage is a unique impulse item at retail. Low-maintenance 'Lemon Beauty' is easy to produce, and is a perfect foundation plant or mixed container component. It is also rabbit-resistant and frost-tolerant. Variegated yellow and green foliage.