Re: honeysuckle
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: honeysuckle
- From: D* S*
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 21:38:34 -0500
Susan, I have a couple different L. japonica cultivars and no, they
aren't anywhere near as vigorous (a/k/a invasive) as, say, the "native"
honeysuckle vine. In fact, I wish in this case that they were a little
more vigorous. I wanted them to cover a chain-link fence and, after two
years, they've still got a long way to go. One of them is slightly
fragrant, quite pleasant, but I don't know the particular cultivar
because I got it unlabeled off a sale table.
You can always plant fragrant annual vines, like sweet peas or
moonflowers, to climb up amidst the honeysuckle.
Dean Sliger
Warren, Michigan, USA
Zone 6B
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:58:28 -0600 Susan Campanini
<campanin@ntx1.cso.uiuc.edu> writes:
> I am starting to go through color catalogues now that the garden
> itself is
> covered with ice and snow... and I'm wondering if the purple and
> white
> honeysuckle Lonicera japonica that I see in Bluestone is the
> invasive type
> or not?
> Any experiences out there with which honeysuckles are
> invasive and
> which aren't? I'm had the Dropmore Scarlet which are vigorous but
> not
> invasive and nice for long blooming and attracting hummingbirds, but
> they
> are NOT fragrant. Any fragrant noninvasive ones? Any fragrant
> noninvasive
> shade-tolerant ones?
>
>
> Susan and David in Urbana, Illinois, zone 5b
>
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