How very frustrating.......
For the first time in 4 years of trying I have managed to get some cuttings of a very special Honeysuckle to root. So I went on the Interwebthing to get the correct spelling of the name which is very hard to say.never mind fit on a label. Lonicera alseuosmoides.
So up it comes and say that this name is not valid, it is a synonym of Lonicera acuminata .
Not a problem, certainly easier to spell and pronounce. Next I looked for some information on this plant. Great, lots of images, not one of which matches the plant I have. L. acuminata has fragrant yellow flowers, mine has unscented (to human noses at least) and sort of nondescript pink and off white flowers.
Now I wonder what Lonicera I have. It would not matter except that when in flower this plant is absolutely smother in bees of every kind. I counted over 1000 of them in a 6 feet by 6 feet area, one sunny afternoon in Summer. A bee keeper friend of ours wants a plant for her garden.
Even worse is that I have no picture of the flowers to compare to the images on the Web or to show on here. Very frustrating.
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Although you might not have an image of the flower it may be worth posting an image of the leaves and plant itself. In that way we may be able to reduce the number of things it may be. Some honeysuckles are climbers and some more shrub like, some have small leaves some quite large, some are deciduous some evergreen. Lets see some images and we may be able to make the odd suggestion.
Those both look lovely ........... one would think they need some sort of differentiation in their names
They're both described as scented - but I know that some people just don't seem able to smell some scents .
I presume they're hardy in the UK?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Cannot even remember where I bought it either. Think it was from a now defunct Nursery near Torquay, many years ago.
Looked at the images of the ones from Crug, but the leaves on mine are definitely different.
There is a plant seller at the Plant Hunter's Fairs to which we often go, who specialises in Lonicera, I may take a plant to him and see if he knows it.
Oh and this one is definitely an evergreen, climber, but not L. henryi which we also have (along with at least a dozen other climbing deciduous Lonicera).
Just been through the photos from this year and last and not found an image. I know I took some of the bees on it, but when??
Will keep looking.
That is probably Lonicera caprifolia rather than the one we are looking for. Thanks for looking.
Delay in answering caused by a 6 hour power outage.
Sorry, never looked at your time stamp. Our electricity went off and on and off and on and finally off from about 11 am till 4.30 pm. Luckily we did manage to get Dinner while it was still on.
Takes a long time to look through the thousands of images I have taken. Suppose I should really have put names to the plants, then at least Search would be usable.
At last I have found a picture of this Lonicera
And with a bee visitor.
That is the only picture I can find which looks anything like my plant, now renamed L. acuminata. Thanks.