Genus: Lonicera

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.

Hi Matthew, Welcome to GoY,
All the best, Hywel

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

that looks great, welcome to GOY

Well done. Welcome to GOY.

You will have to have patience. I did not get many flowers for 2 years and sudenly it was this.

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.

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.

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 :)

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 !

Smell must be divine.

fantastic pic of honeysuckle flower. Great closeup.

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.

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.

Bet the hummingbirds love you for it !

Bet its scent is terrific.

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.

Stunning, so elegant, like ballerina's showing off.

Nice lighting, lovely flower.

Yes Chezs the scent is most evident in the evening and it is heavenly.

A nice colour is this scented..chezs

Fab Colour :O

Beautiful!

Lovely shots Nancy.

Think you have Nancy its a beautiful photo

It is a lovely color but unfortunately lacks the wonderful aroma that my original one has. That one is just coming into bloom now.

beautiful

It smells so delicious on a hot sunny day ! I hope you get to have a few of them in the near future !

Perfect photography!

I love the smell of honeysuckle ! Yours looks so healthy

It's Lonicera something.

Your so lucky Chris im still waitin4my Honeysuckle buds2open its it 1st yr its flowered so im mega EXcited about it :)

good thinking... I found a little wildone... strange flowers...but no scent..I'd love to find one that was scented.

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...

Wow that was fast!! looks wonderful!!

Yum...I remember eating the nectar from these as a child. Sweet :)

I just love these pics of your garden, Trees... ! especially this wonderful honeysuckle...just great. Almost forgot to ask ...Is it scented?

Bet u cant wait til they open &have a sniff can u? :D

So am I and it shouldn't be too much longer.

beautiful, im still waiting on mine to flower

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!

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.

Nice colour.

Maybe you could plant marigolds nearby to attract them away from the honeysuckle

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

yes i would love to see any others you have done.......................

Its a lovely Bright plant your using 2 Helofadigger cant wait 2 c it finished :D

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.

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........

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.

Ditto what Jac said! They're amazing!

What a wonderful picture.