Re: Lonicera "Golden Box"

In a message dated 1/13/03 4:13:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, mtalt@hort.net 
writes:


> Claire...doubt it would be hardy in z 4 - it's a honeysuckle, not a
> Buxus.  Think z 6 might be the farthest north it could be safely
> grown outside - may be wrong, but that's my impression at the
> moment:-)

I have seen the plant and was musing that maybe on sharp drainage in the 
right place it would work.  All the daphnes which are not supposed to grow 
here can manage and the English boxwood which is supposed to be tender also 
does well.

They would not make it in the open garden but survive on gravel.  Sometimes 
where these plants survive is the opposite of the recommended environment.

I am usually skeptical of the advice to go on killing a plant until satisfied 
you are not going to succeed but then it sometimes happens.  That lonicera 
has turned up at our local BNARGS sales so someone is propagating it around 
us.  There is member in Massachusetts with a few palm trees.  He publishes a 
small monthly on how to succeed in the North with less hardy plants.  
Allowing as how it is mostly a lot of trouble when more hardy plants are 
around, sometimes one is tempted to try.

Claire Peplowski

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