Honeysuckle
Posted on May 2, 2021 8:00 AM by Gerry Trout
Nancy's Trumpet Honeysuckle has started blooming. You can see it from the road, just across from her little garden shed. It has been growing there for more than ten years, and has gotten big and really pretty. I just took a close up picture for you to see its beautiful details, but this plant is eight feet tall and has hundreds of blossoms. Gorgeous.
This honeysuckle is an evergreen vine, and it blooms from April-August. The hummingbirds love the bright red trumpet flowers. My Field Guide to Wildflowers says that its natural habitat is woods and thickets. Not sure if I've ever seen this in the wild; I'd probably faint if I ran across it growing in the woods, but maybe...
I'LL KEEP LOOKING!!!