Though it seems I have been on a personal hiatus, my garden and flowers have been calling me outdoors and back to my blog.
The spring blooms are always a visual delight. However, it was the delicious fragrance of honeysuckle that finally rejuvenated my garden soul.
Honeysuckle is a hearty choice for a yard or flower garden. It grows in many climates and comes in many varieties. In addition to its signature scent, I love honeysuckle for its easy care and ability to attract pollinators.
Honeysuckles love the sun and are generally not picky about their soil.
Honeysuckles can be grown as groundcovers, in containers, or on a fence or trellis. My only concern with honeysuckle is that it is so hearty it can overwhelm the plants or shrubs around it, so don’t be afraid to prune, prune, prune in the fall when the plant goes dormant.
An equally hearty plant is hosta. Where honeysuckles love the sun, hostas love the shade or partial shade and will likely thrive in that shady spot in your yard where other plants cannot.
Hosta’s calling card is its tropical-like foliage. It fills shady spaces beautifully in multiple shades of green or variegated with yellow or white.
The drawback to hosta plants is deer who can be voracious eaters. I once had a family of deer invite themselves over one evening for an all-you-can-eat hosta buffet. In one night they devoured every hosta in my flower beds down to the soil.
Jackie Rhoades – in an article in GardeningKnowHow.com – recommends planting daffodils around your hostas to keep the deer away.
For more information about honeysuckle and hosta plants, check out GardeningKnowHow.com or visit your local plant nursery.
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