For a well known backyard garden plant that has such a sweet title, honeysuckle is a single of the most invasive plants you can come across. I not long ago recognized that a volunteer honeysuckle experienced fully invaded a ornamental wrought iron monitor on the patio. The monitor is 6 toes tall, and the honeysuckle towers above it.
It will be a important undertaking to uproot the honeysuckle, even though it does add a specific fragrance to the patio. The honeysuckle has completely enveloped the monitor, so it will consider a whilst for the backyard crew to uproot it and shift it to a more non-public house. The display was a great discussion piece on the patio.
I do love the small golden yellow flowers on honeysuckle. To its credit history, it is an quick plant to increase and can be effortlessly paired with other summer months bloomers. Check out mixing it with Coneflowers, Black-Eyed Susan, Yarrow or Coreopsis. These make excellent companions as an accessory to honeysuckle accenting a backyard fence.
“Gardening Made Simple,” a Greater Residences & Backyard favorite useful resource e-book for me, also indicates teaming the honeysuckle climber with Trumpet Vine, Morning Glories, Black-Eyed Susans, even Working day Lilies with the Honeysuckle as a backdrop.
Honeysuckle is normally paired with so lots of other crops due to the fact it can be grown in a selection of hues, which includes pink and purple, along with its traditional yellow. It is also thought of a very effortless treatment plant and is considered a terrific garden traveler, increasing next to and intertwining with shrubs, perennials and annuals. It also blooms all summer time long and can climb up to 25 ft tall.
If you really feel that honeysuckle is a minor bit far too “totally free-wheeling” and intense for your backyard garden, take into consideration various other vines including Hyacinth Bear, Cardinal Climber, Virginia Creeper, Dutchman’s Pipe, Boston or English Ivy, which also grows profusely in my back backyard garden. I share this plant effortlessly. Wisteria was also recommended as a companion to honeysuckle, but I would say “Under no circumstances!”
Wisteria is an evil plant in my reserve. It’s woody, challenging to regulate, and will wrap itself close to nearly anything on a patio. It has a destructive, invasive personality. Consider it! I have witnessed its destruction at several friends’ patios and decks. For a special seem, make a trellis and check out your honeysuckle climb to its articles, all summer time extensive.
Micki J. Shelton is a Muskogee indigenous and learn gardener.
