Genus: Lonicera
Honeysuckles are shrubs or vines native to the northern hemisphere. Have you tried removing the blossom and sucking on the sweet nectar in the center?
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Species of Lonicera
- Lonicera acuminata
- Lonicera alberti
- Lonicera albiflora
- Lonicera alpigena
- Lonicera altmannii
- Lonicera angustifolia
- Lonicera anisocalyx
- Lonicera arborea
- Lonicera arizonica
- Lonicera biflora
- Lonicera bournei
- Lonicera brevisepala
- Lonicera buchananii
- Lonicera buddleioides
- Lonicera caerulea
- Lonicera calcarata
- Lonicera calvescens
- Lonicera canadensis
- Lonicera caprifolium
- Lonicera carnosifolis
- Lonicera chrysantha
- Lonicera ciliosa
- Lonicera ciliosissima
- Lonicera cinerea
- Lonicera codonantha
- Lonicera confusa
- Lonicera conjugialis
- Lonicera crassifolia
- Lonicera cyanocarpa
- Lonicera dasystyla
- Lonicera dioica
- Lonicera elisae
- Lonicera etrusca
- Lonicera fargesii
- Lonicera ferdinandii
- Lonicera ferruginea
- Lonicera flava
- Lonicera fragilis
- Lonicera fragrantissima
- Lonicera fulvotomentosa
- Lonicera glutinosa
- Lonicera graebneri
- Lonicera gynochlamydea
- Lonicera hellenica
- Lonicera hemsleyana
- Lonicera heterophylla
- Lonicera hildebrandiana
- Lonicera hirsuta
- Lonicera hispida
- Lonicera hispidula
- Lonicera humilis
- Lonicera hypoglauca
- Lonicera hypoleuca
- Lonicera implexa
- Lonicera inconspicua
- Lonicera inodora
- Lonicera interrupta
- Lonicera involucrata
- Lonicera japonica
- Lonicera jilongensis
- Lonicera kansuensis
- Lonicera kawakamii
- Lonicera korolkowii
- Lonicera lanceolata
- Lonicera ligustrina
- Lonicera litangensis
- Lonicera longiflora
- Lonicera longituba
- Lonicera maackii
- Lonicera macrantha
- Lonicera macranthoides
- Lonicera maximowiczii
- Lonicera microphylla
- Lonicera minuta
- Lonicera minutifolia
- Lonicera modesta
- Lonicera morrowii
- Lonicera mucronata
- Lonicera myrtillus
- Lonicera nervosa
- Lonicera nigra
- Lonicera nitida
- Lonicera nubium
- Lonicera nummulariifolia
- Lonicera oblata
- Lonicera oblongifolia
- Lonicera oiwakensis
- Lonicera oreodoxa
- Lonicera orientalis
- Lonicera pampaninii
- Lonicera periclymenum
- Lonicera pileata
- Lonicera pilosa
- Lonicera praeflorens
- Lonicera prostrata
- Lonicera pyrenaica
- Lonicera reticulata
- Lonicera retusa
- Lonicera rhytidophylla
- Lonicera rupicola
- Lonicera ruprechtiana
- Lonicera saccata
- Lonicera schneideriana
- Lonicera semenovii
- Lonicera sempervirens
- Lonicera serreana
- Lonicera setifera
- Lonicera similis
- Lonicera spinosa
- Lonicera splendida
- Lonicera standishii
- Lonicera stephanocarpa
- Lonicera subaequalis
- Lonicera subhispida
- Lonicera sublabiata
- Lonicera subspicata
- Lonicera szechuanica
- Lonicera taipeiensis
- Lonicera tangutica
- Lonicera tatarica
- Lonicera tatarinowii
- Lonicera tomentella
- Lonicera tragophylla
- Lonicera tricalysioides
- Lonicera trichogyne
- Lonicera trichosantha
- Lonicera trichosepala
- Lonicera tubuliflora
- Lonicera utahensis
- Lonicera villosa
- Lonicera virgultorum
- Lonicera webbiana
- Lonicera x heckrottii
- Lonicera x purpusii
- Lonicera xylosteum
- Lonicera yunnanensis
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Comments:
4 Oct, 2008
My honeysuckle has trouble in the heat....it's supposed to grow okay here and probably will when it matures a bit....LOVE THE SMELL...but quite intense
On photo - Honeysuckle
4 Oct, 2008
You will have to have patience. I did not get many flowers for 2 years and sudenly it was this.
On photo - Back Garden
4 Oct, 2008
That is wonderful! My Honeysuckle always flowers very sporadically but I never pinch out the buds. Now I know what to do next year! Thanks.
On photo - Back Garden
4 Oct, 2008
I am quite proud of this. It was grown from a sucker from another plant. Next door provided the trelis and I just kept threading it in and out and pinching out the terminal buds.
On photo - Back Garden
5 Sep, 2008
Wow, a gallon a day of sugarwater! That's a lot of hummers. I love to catch pics like this, with them feeding on plants. Lovely :)
On photo - Nectaring on honeysuckle
19 Aug, 2008
When we were young, we used to pinch the back off a honeysuckle bloom and pull the stamens through the tiny opening and taste a drop of the sweet nectar inside !
On photo - scented honeysuckle
3 Aug, 2008
Oh My..! I just assumed that you would have them too, I believe there are at least 300 types or species of hummingbirds, I didn't think they would all live in the eastern hemisphere. Ours are the more plainly colored type, the ruby throated. The more colorful ones are in South America. So sorry to hear you don't have this little beauties to enjoy.
On photo - Honeysuckle {Lonicera] Close Up ...
3 Aug, 2008
Our insects love it,
but the hummingbirds find the Atlantic rather daunting :-D
It would be wonderful to see those delightful birds in our gardens,
the nearest we have locally are wrens and tits.
On photo - Honeysuckle {Lonicera] Close Up ...
25 Jul, 2008
You have some amazing flowers there, these look so big. I used to have some yellow honey suckle, totally different looks and a much smaller species. The hedge was very dense.
On photo - honey suckle
16 Jul, 2008
Yes Chezs the scent is most evident in the evening and it is heavenly.
On photo - honey suckle
12 Jul, 2008
It is a lovely color but unfortunately lacks the wonderful aroma that my original one has. That one is just coming into bloom now.
On photo - honey suckle Dropmore Scarlet
11 Jul, 2008
It smells so delicious on a hot sunny day ! I hope you get to have a few of them in the near future !
On photo - Honeysuckle on the fence.
5 Jul, 2008
I love the smell of honeysuckle ! Yours looks so healthy
On photo - Honeysuckle on the fence.
11 Jun, 2008
Your so lucky Chris im still waitin4my Honeysuckle buds2open its it 1st yr its flowered so im mega EXcited about it :)
On photo - Honeysuckle out
11 Jun, 2008
good thinking... I found a little wildone... strange flowers...but no scent..I'd love to find one that was scented.
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11 Jun, 2008
I am really happy with this one. I also have a smaller yellow one in the back garden, but it is progressing much more slowly. As long as it stays healthy, ok, but if it starts to fade I'll have to move it nearer to this one...
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8 Jun, 2008
Yum...I remember eating the nectar from these as a child. Sweet :)
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6 Jun, 2008
I just love these pics of your garden, Trees... ! especially this wonderful honeysuckle...just great. Almost forgot to ask ...Is it scented?
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22 May, 2008
Honeysuckles respond well to hard pruning. It may be that you have been too kind to it, as it should have flowered by now. I think I would leave it until next spring and cut it hard back - then see if that has any effect on its flowering. One of my very old ones got the hard pruning method and it has re-juvenated it!
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21 May, 2008
Hi Johnbull - I'll be interested to see what replies you get. We have a honeysuckle too - late flowering Dutch - we have had for nearly 4 years and it has never flowered - although it has always shown plenty of growth - we have had to move it a few times in that period so that may be why, but it would be interesting to know if there are other explanations.
On question - honeysuckle
18 Apr, 2008
Maybe you could plant marigolds nearby to attract them away from the honeysuckle
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14 Apr, 2008
Hi begoniafan mine did the same recently after very cold nights live in the North East more to come Im afraid. Probably frost damage so would leave as should recover if we ever see warmer temperatures.Removing them will expose new growth to same effect.
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8 Apr, 2008
Sorry been busy with blogs work pond etc not too familiar with latin name but have an evergreen honeysuckle with orange flowers new variety recent introduction.Could this be what you referring to?
Has large glossy leaves much larger than other honeysuckles so like Spritz wouldnt recommend through trees as will eventually choke and dominate. Lonicera genus can be confusing as lonicera shrubs commonly used for hedging and bear little relation to honeysuckles.If it flowers then very unlikely to be shrub variety.
On question - Orange Honeysuckle
31 Mar, 2008
I have tried to track this plant down for you but it's not in my RHS book or on their website, I'm afraid. Maybe another member has one in their garden? My Honeysuckles (various) are all growing happily on trellises, if that's any help. I find that their stems get so strong that they get very tangled in trees, and I can't get them free very easily if I need to.
On question - Orange Honeysuckle
31 Mar, 2008
Eggbox sweetie I'll load up another picture of my chicken today for you I'm sure you're all going to get so bore of me and my pictures sooner or later! Lol
It is a fun plant Jacque I also have a grey kind of colour one just waiting for its 'make-over'.
Yes Majeekahead very fun ideed I'm planning for the future (grandkids hopefully a long time off as yet) but as I loved having our other 'old' garden child friendly I'm planning this one to be even better, all of our gardens are going to have something that will enchant children no matter how old they are!
The duck was made by myself using chicken wire and some slightly stonger wire for the supporting frame after searching the web for ideas and is very easy to make you just have to close one eye while you are making it and imagine what it's going to be like all filled in.
Can you imagine what a great place the 'nest' would be like at easter time for the little ones on a egg hunt? Blooming eggmazing! ;0) Hel.xxx.
On photo - My have a go duck
31 Mar, 2008
this looks like a fun idea, i just dug one of these (lonicera) up out of my garden and put into a pot - as it just did'nt look right where it was, was wondering what to do with it - i might have a go myself! - did you buy the chicken wire duck or did you make it?
On photo - My have a go duck
30 Mar, 2008
yes i would love to see any others you have done.......................
On photo - My have a go duck
30 Mar, 2008
Its a lovely Bright plant your using 2 Helofadigger cant wait 2 c it finished :D
On photo - My have a go duck
30 Mar, 2008
Why thank you once again Eggbox you really are a darling. Would you like to see another one I have made from some kitchen ware? Hel.xxx.
On photo - My have a go duck
30 Mar, 2008
i think it looks great,cant wait to see it when its grown fully into shape.............................you have done a really good job,i bet it wasn,t easy to do........
On photo - My have a go duck
14 Mar, 2008
You don't have hummingbirs in the UK? I didn't move to Ohio until 14 years ago and until then I never dreamed that they'd come this far north. What a surprise I had the first time I heard one buzzing in my yard ! Now I get 40-50 every summer and although I have many flowers that hummers love, I still put out 10 nectar feeders and go through a gallon of sugarwater PER DAY !! We only get one species here, the Ruby-throated. They fascinate me. They are true acrobats.
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5 Oct, 2008
Took our honeysuckle up about 40 years ago! We had good reason because it affected our daughter's asthma. However, she left home some years ago....so maybe we should plant another one - she doesn't have to sniff it when she comes to visit! But the SCENT, as you say Skippy is intense - positively dizzying.
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