Award-winning honeysuckle collection
Add a burst of fragrance and colour to your garden with the Award-winning Honeysuckle Collection. This trio of climbers will delight you with their intoxicating scents and vibrant, two-tone blooms from late spring through autumn.
With their ability to thrive in both full sun and partial shade, they’re perfect for covering walls, trellises, or scrambling through trees and shrubs. Their fragrant tubular flowers in shades of creamy-white, yellow, and red will draw attention from afar, while their glossy green foliage provides a lovely backdrop all year round.
With their ability to thrive in both full sun and partial shade, they’re perfect for covering walls, trellises, or scrambling through trees and shrubs. Their fragrant tubular flowers in shades of creamy-white, yellow, and red will draw attention from afar, while their glossy green foliage provides a lovely backdrop all year round.
How to care for Award-winning honeysuckle collection:
To avoid dry conditions, and to ensure good soil contact around the rootball, we advise planting climbers at least 30cm (12in), and preferably 45-60cm (18-24in) away from the base of a wall or fence. An even larger distance should be maintained when planting climbers beside an existing tree or shrub.
When planting, add some soil conditioner (well-rotted compost) to the planting hole and some mycorrhizal fungi to aid root establishment. Newly planted honeysuckles should be cut back by up to two thirds in their first full year after planting, in early spring. The resulting new growth can then be tied onto a frame, and nipped back when it reaches the desired height.
In subsequent years (again in early spring), thin out congested stems, and prune lanky stems back to healthy buds. Every few years, you may want to renovate your plant, and you can do this by cutting it back to around 60cm (24in) above the ground.
The subsequent mass of growth will need to be thinned and tied on as before. After pruning, apply a generous 5-7cm (2-3in) mulch of well-rotted compost or manure around the base of the plant.
When planting, add some soil conditioner (well-rotted compost) to the planting hole and some mycorrhizal fungi to aid root establishment. Newly planted honeysuckles should be cut back by up to two thirds in their first full year after planting, in early spring. The resulting new growth can then be tied onto a frame, and nipped back when it reaches the desired height.
In subsequent years (again in early spring), thin out congested stems, and prune lanky stems back to healthy buds. Every few years, you may want to renovate your plant, and you can do this by cutting it back to around 60cm (24in) above the ground.
The subsequent mass of growth will need to be thinned and tied on as before. After pruning, apply a generous 5-7cm (2-3in) mulch of well-rotted compost or manure around the base of the plant.
What's included:
The collection contains one each of the plants listed below, each in a 9cm pot.
Lonicera periclymenum 'Serotina': A classic cottage garden climber with large, fragrant, tubular, creamy-white flowers, streaked dark red-purple, that give it a two-tone appearance. In hot summers, the flowers may be followed by small, bright red fruits. This deciduous honeysuckle flowers later than most varieties, and will keep on producing scent and flowers for several weeks in late summer and autumn. Grows to 7m.
Lonicera japonica 'Halliana': Masses of highly scented, pure white, tubular flowers, ageing to yellow, smother this handsome, semi-evergreen honeysuckle from April to August, giving it a two-tone appearance. Many of the handsome, tapered, glossy, dark green leaves are retained all year, so this vigorous cultivar is ideal for covering a pergola, arch or boundary wall, or scrambling through robust shrubs and trees. It is happy in sun or partial shade. Grows to 10m.
Lonicera periclymenum 'Graham Thomas': Fabulously fragrant, large, tubular, white flowers, ageing to yellow, from July to September and oval, mid-green leaves. This vigorous, deciduous climber will soon cover a boundary wall or fence in a sunny site. Later flowering than many other cultivars of honeysuckle, it's ideal for a cottage or wildlife garden. Grows to 4m.
Flowering period:
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
Position:
Full sun / light shade
Rate of growth:
Fast-growing
Soil:
Moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soil
Hardiness:
Fully hardy
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This climber is deciduous so it will lose all its leaves in autumn, then fresh new foliage appears again each spring.
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Humans/Pets: Fruit are ornamental - not to be eaten
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