Honeysuckle Reviews

Yes it's spring again and the weather is going to get a lot warmer, now is the time to get back into your garden and one of my favorite plants in the garden is the honeysuckle. Honeysuckle is a great climbing plant often it is taken for granted a hedgerow plant but in a garden it can be a beautiful feature. The scent of the ...  Read the complete review

Despite my extensive horticulture knowledge (Degree in Amenity Hort from Writtle College), I feel it is time to talk about some of the simpler plants in life. Ok, so you want a good climber that is hardy, good coverage, eay to look after and adds some colour too your garden? Look no further than a Honeysuckle. The Honeysuckle ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Let me introduce you to an excellent plant that will make any garden brighter - and for very little effort n your part. Honeysuckle is a climbing plant - ie it will clamber over anything, given half a chance. It has non-descript green leaves, and lovely flowers - usually some combination of yellow and pinky red. The flowers produce a ...  Read the complete review

I have a pergola [though it looks more like a bus top so I'm told] with 3 types of honeysuckle growing over it. The best is Halliana [is it one L or two]. This one is semi-evergreen - it looks a bit sad through the Winter. With small white/yellow flowers - it smells wonderfull in the summer, especially after a small [hopefully] bit of rain. ...  Read the complete review

Although Honeysuckle was born in Europe, it is widely grown throughout the world, especially China. There are also many kinds of species of it. In Europe, the most common kind is 'Lonicera Caprifolium'. It is a climbing shrub, growing to some 4 metres!! It has oval leaves, which grow opposite to each other, and yellow flowers, peppered ...  Read the complete review

A plant of romance it lures you to the garden to smell its lovely unforgetable scent and bask on its beauty. It climbs on any structure and projects its radiant flowers with grace. Makes a wonderful wedding gift not to be forgotten. Does not require alot of maintenance in the garden. Makes a wonderful hedge and can grow to 12 ...  Read the complete review

What can be more alluring than the scent of honeysuckle wafting round your garden after a summer shower? A drop of rain always seem to make the scent more pronounced. Not reason enough in itself to wish for rain, of course – we had plenty of that last year. Now many plants have the reputation of being difficult to grow, although ...  Read the complete review