Lonicera nitida Elegant - Box Honeysuckle

Honeysuckles consist of bushes or generally vigorous climbers that wrap around their support with a magnificent flowering that is often highly fragrant. <strong>Bush honeysuckles</strong>, commonly referred to by the name Lonicera or Honeyberry, <strong>are sought after for their dense foliage</strong> <strong>which is well-suited for</strong> <strong>hedging or as ground cover, but also for their flowering</strong> which, for some deciduous species, <strong>diffuses powerful scents in the heart of winter</strong>. They are highly valued for their ease of cultivation and rapid growth, allowing for the establishment of hedges, borders, or ground cover in record time with shoots of 30 to over 40 cm per year. Their slender stems bear opposite, glossy green leaves or those with a velvety appearance, sometimes slightly purplish, and flowers in open tubes with 5 lobes, ranging from white to red, followed by round berries in summer. Notable among evergreens is the <a href="https://en.promessedefleurs.eu/shrubs/shrubs-by-variety/honeysuckle/lonicera-nitida-box-honeysuckle.html">Lonicera nitida</a> with small dark green leaves, ideal for forming beautiful, bushy, compact hedges, or the <a href="https://en.promessedefleurs.eu/climbers/climbers-by-variety/honeysuckle/lonicera-periclymenum-chic-et-choc-common-honeysuckle.html">Lonicera periclymenum 'Chic et Choc'</a>, a dwarf variety with pale pink to orange-yellow flowers suitable for pots or borders. Among deciduous varieties, the <a href="https://en.promessedefleurs.eu/shrubs/shrubs-by-variety/honeysuckle/lonicera-fragrantissima-winter-honeysuckle.html">Lonicera fragrantissima</a>, semi-trailing, offers a very long flowering of pearly white flowers that are very pleasant to smell in the heart of winter. <strong>Honeysuckles are hardy plants, capable of thriving in the most inhospitable soils</strong> as long as the soil is well-drained and cool in sunny situations or preferably in partial shade or even in the shade for the species pileata. Pruning involves shortening the branches just after winter by removing old wood. For hedges, intervention is required two or three times a year. Loniceras are used in borders, hedges, or trained against a wall.