Lonicera, Brown's Honeysuckle, Scarlet Trumpet Honeysuckle 'Dropmore Scarlet'

My nursery just sold me 2 Dropmore Scarlet Trumpet Honeysuckels to vine on my new garden arch. They said it was evergreen but now I see o...Read Morenline it is deciduous. Can you tell me if it really is deciduous? I live in Northern CA in a valley, zone 9, I think. I love it but definitely want an evergreen and don't know if I should proceed with planting them. HELP!

Way bigger than 15 foot as this picture shows . Hummingbirds absolutely are drawn . Have never seen it be invasive. Old plant most likely...Read More 20 years here.

This is such a reliable fast-growing plant. My only disappointment is that it has no fragrance!

Today is December 12 in zone 5b and my Dropmore Scarlet Honeysuckle still has three blooms on it with one of those just appearing.
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Also, it is by far the favorite of my hummingbirds.

This morning (January 3) the beautiful color from my Dropmore Scarlet Honeysuckle was gone. The last bloom finally dropped off during the night.

We live in SE Minnesota, zone 4, and bought 2 of these in 1 gallon pots 3 summers ago. They were about 1-1/2 feet tall when we brought t...Read Morehem home. They are now about 6 feet tall, and we have them trained on trellises. They are bushy and BEAUTIFUL and the flowers are very plentiful. I had to trim a bunch off the bottoms of the bushes as they were starting to look straggly. I tried propagating with wood and soft cuttings, the soft seemed to work, the wood did not. The hummingbirds also love them! I recommend if you want a fast growing showy bush (that needs a trellis or something to vine around). Also takes pruning very well if you want to keep it small.

I would love to grow this beautiful honeysuckle here in Northcentral Florida, as I saw dramatic specimens of this plant growing in Atlant...Read Morea, Georgia, but Southern Living Garden Book says it only does well down into the Lower South, which would be about zone 8a. I live in zone 8b, which is in the Coastal South. Southern Living also says it is a hybrid of L. sempervirens and L. hirsuta, and from the Northeastern USA. So I will have to console myself with the lovely Southern heirloom Lonicera simpervirens (what a lovely name!) also called coral honeysuckle here in Florida, which is a parent of 'Dropmore Scarlet,' but doesn't have the intense color of its child.