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Lonicera (Honeysuckle) "Heaven Scent
Hi Everyone. Bought a Honeysuckle 'Heaven Scent' in the Spring and having to house it temporarily in a pot and tied in to a tree for this year. Will plant it in the autumn when space free.
It has grown about four foot on one thick stem with shoots at the top which have given a dozen or so beautifully scented flowers. Some still to turn yellow at this point. However, on one stem yesterday I spotted these green bulbous type things. I know Heaven Scent produces red berries at some point after blooming but am not sure if these green pods are going to be berries or if they are seed pods. As it's the plant's first year - do I just leave them and let it do it's thing - or should I remove?
Many thanks.
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They'll contain the seeds and turn red. I find honeysuckle berries attractive, if you don't like them cut them off
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks nutcutlet. I'd certainly like to keep the berries.. I had just wondered if the sign of berries now is early and if it means that the plant has finished it's growth run for the season.
Birds love honeysuckle berries when they're ripe and they're a useful source of winter food for them - and they look lovely.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I had early flowers which are at your berry stage, but now there's another flush. Not the same variety though, mine is Graham Thomas
In the sticks near Peterborough
Nut, my L. Graham Thomas is flowering its socks off this year - the best it's ever been, and the perfume in the evening is fantastic
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks for your contribution Dove. I'm ridiculously chuffed at trying young honeysuckle plants this year. For some ludicrous reason I expected a drier summer in Scotland! The evening perfume as you say is a delight. The rain and winds so far have ruined the peak of my rose blooms which are absolutely soaked before complete opening, everything is drooping and I've had to rush out in winds to stake so many things. Every year I decide it's time to get rid of the pretty things, willowy things and things which peck out in rotten weather - but every year the logic of only planting tough things goes out of my head and I think 'We'll get prolonged sunshine this year for sure'.
Ah well...