Sweet for the bees food for butterflies honeysuckle (Honeysuckle)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Honeysuckle
Date:	06/10/02 (849 review reads)
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Advantages: smells wonderful, easy

Disadvantages: poisinous berries

Honeysuckle Lonicera

Woodbine is its old name

Honey suckle is a climbing deciduous shrub
Honeysuckle receives its common name from an old habit of sucking the sweet nectar from the end of the flowers.
Honey suckle flowers given to you are a sign of affection.
There are about 180 species of honeysuckle.

This climber is a favourite of many a garden, rambling over arches climbing along walls smelling sweetly and attracting the bees.

Honeysuckle has oval 5-10 cm long green leaves opposite each other.

The bell shaped flowers can be pink, red, white or yellow.

In the autumn they produce red or black berries, which are poisonous

You can buy them at garden centres but they are fairly easy to take successful cuttings from. Take a small cutting dab some rooting hormone on the end (not always necessary) place in a peat and sand mix and keep watered. Early autumn is a good time to take cuttings.
They like a sunny position with well-drained soil on a warm summer evening will have a wonderful fragrance
Both the "English" White Admiral and the "southern" white admiral lay their eggs on the leaves and the caterpillars eat the leaves. They have yet to do so on my honeysuckle.

Thank you for reading ,Happy gardening, Mary

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