Lonicera x purpusii is a winter flowering honeysuckle. Winter flowering plants are somehow more precious than those that flower throughout the rest of the year. Admittedly I am pretty fickle. By mid summer I will have forgotten about this delicate sweetly scented bloom. Next year I will be newly impressed. Goldfish springs to mind.
Exquisite! Is it scented too?
It is! It is very boring for most of the year (harsh but true) and this one is growing up through the very vigorous Clematis armandii by the main gate. How does your garden grow?
Wet wet wet though watery sunshine today.I,m not as brave as you in bad weather.Stare out of window and grumble is me.
I do staring and grumbling too!
I have this too, and it is such a sweet scent….as you say boring otherwise, but winter flowering shrubs are so precious. Blackbird likes the berries too, when they set.
Snow is Gone here now…..
Hopefully Spring is on its way! You visiting this year?
How very beautiful. I want one.
I will take a cutting for you!
How lovely that would be, but I think customs might frown on it. I just might have to come and collect it in person! One of these days, I’d like to hear about your method of taking cuttings. I haven’t had very good luck with cuttings.