Shrub : Honeysuckle - Winter Flowering
1 bareroot plant @ £6.99
Catalogue Code: 60325
Despatch: April 2010
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Hardy Shrub
Ideal For:
Border, Cut Flower, Hedging, Scented, Trellis
Special Features:
Highly Scented
Flowers:
January, February, March
Lonicera purpusii ‘Winter Beauty’.
The superb fragrant flowers of the shrubby honeysuckle are a real treat in the depths of winter. Delicate creamy white blooms appear in clusters on bare stems and fill the air with their heady perfume. This spreading cousin of the well loved climbing honeysuckles makes an excellent border shrub or hedging plant, and its flowering stems may also be used as short lived cut flowers. Height: 2m (78”). Spread: 2.5m (98”) Supplied as a bareroot with a 50cm stem.
How to Grow
Honeysuckle - Winter Flowering
- Plant shrubby honeysuckle in borders in any moist well drained soil.
- Position in a sunny or semi shaded site.
- Feed and water regularly throughout the growing season while young plants become established. Older plants will require only occasional attention.
- Aftercare
- Winter Flowering Honeysuckle plants can be pruned immediately after flowering. Prune back flowered stems to a pair of strong buds or vigorous younger growth and reduce remaining stems to restrict the shrub to the space available.
- In autumn apply a mulch of well rotted manure or garden compost to the base of the plant, avaoiding contact with the main stems.
