In article , "effi" wrote:

or do 1st year plants lose their leaves in winter in texas?

Most honeysuckles are deciduous & lose their leaves late autumn or early
winter (in my zone even the ones that are evergreen further south behave
in a deciduous manner). But by this time of year (here in Zone 8 anyway)
their new leaves should be extremely obvious & already rather pretty, so
if there is no evidence of leaves or leafbuds, I vote dead.

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