Add beauty and fragrance to your garden with the Variegated Japanese Honeysuckle ‘Mint Crisp’ (斑入りスイカズラ), a unique climbing vine prized for its striking foliage and sweetly scented blooms. This variety features mint-green leaves edged in creamy white, providing visual interest throughout the growing season. In late spring through summer, it produces clusters of delicate white flowers that mature to soft yellow, releasing a pleasant fragrance that attracts bees and butterflies.

Vigorous and easy to grow, this hardy vine is perfect for covering fences, trellises, pergolas, or arbors, making it both a decorative and functional addition to any outdoor space. You will receive a healthy plant similar in size and condition to the one shown in the listing photos.

• 1 live Mint Crisp honeysuckle plant
• Healthy, rooted vine
• Shipped in nursery pot
• Variegated foliage variety
• Secure packaging for safe delivery

Growing Information

• Common Name: Variegated Honeysuckle, Mint Crisp Honeysuckle
• Botanical Name: Lonicera japonica ‘Mint Crisp’
• Plant Type: Deciduous to semi-evergreen flowering vine
• Growth Stage: Young plant
• Sun Requirements: Full sun to partial shade
• Soil: Well-draining soil; adaptable
• Watering: Moderate; drought tolerant once established
• Mature Length: 10–20 feet (with support)
• Growth Rate: Fast-growing
• USDA Zones: 4–9
• Container Friendly: Yes (with support)
• Pollination: Not required; attracts pollinators

Care Tip

Provide a trellis or support structure for climbing. Prune regularly to control growth and shape, as this vine can be vigorous. Trim after flowering to encourage new growth and maintain a tidy appearance.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.