Come Be My Honey
Watercolor On Black Paper
2024, 11"x 14"
Honeysuckle, Lonicera
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Plant of the Day
Sunday 14 April 2024
A useful small-leaved hedging plant is Lonicera ligustrina var. pileata (box-leaved honeysuckle). This low spreading evergreen shrub responds well to clipping and has small tubular cream flowers in late spring, followed by purple berries.
Jill Raggett
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a farm on the peninsula 🌱
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My big twinberry honeysuckle (Lonicera involucrata) is starting to bloom! It's one of my favorite PNW native plants because it supports a lot of wildlife. The pollinators love the flowers, both vertebrate and invertebrate herbivores chow down on the leaves, birds enjoy the berries, and the whole thing provides shelter for the juncos, sparrows, and other small songbirds in my yard.
If you're in this plant's range, consider it as an alternative to Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) or bush honeysuckle (Lonicera maacki), both of which are invasive and difficult to remove.
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Lonicera fragrantissima / Sweet Breath of Spring at the Coker Arboretum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, NC
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Plant of the Day
Saturday 9 September 2023
In this cottage garden the fragrant flowers of Lonicera periclymenum (honeysuckle) surrounded the front door. This native, shrubby climber will bloom from July to September.
Jill Raggett
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