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Honeysuckle
Posted on May 25, 2020 8:00 AM by Gerry Trout
 
This is what you are smelling these days when you're out walking:  honeysuckle.  Sweet!!!  It's growing all over the mountain.  
 
This is Lonicera japonica, the sweet honeysuckle vines we all remember as children.  We picked the flowers, and pulled the pistil through the bottom of the flower and sucked out the drop of nectar.  Now, I just add the flowers to my water bottle, and it flavors the water.  
 
There are hundreds of species of honeysuckle, and most of them are hardy, tough growing vines.  
 
Honeysuckle is an invasive species, meaning it grows quickly, and wraps around the trunks of trees and shrubs, choking them.  So many people hate honeysuckle. Not me.  I love seeing it wherever it grows.  And it smells beautiful..
 
HAPPY GARDENING!!!
 
 
 
 
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