Decorative honeysuckle: description and photo of varieties for the dacha

Honeysuckle - ornamental shrub, reaching almost 6 meters in height. His whips allow you to create stunning vertical gardening. With their help, you can draw trellis and arches, also scourge can disguise the old walls, cover fences and gazebos. Curly honeysuckle is very unpretentious, characterized by rapid growth and abundant flowering, during which it gives off a steady pleasant smell. The shrub blooms until late autumn, pleasing the eye with its bright red fruits.

Honeysuckle Capricole-fragrant

Fragrant Caprifol is one of the most common species. Its main advantage is resistance to low temperatures. But with severe frosts, the tips of the young shoots may freeze slightly. The plant is light-loving enough, as well as demanding of such characteristics as moisture and soil fertility. Honeysuckle Capricole curly has large sheets, the color of which is dark green on top and bluish-blue below. Often the top 2-3 pairs of leaves grow together.

The flowering of a fragrant porcelain begins in summer, usually in June. Its flowering is accompanied by a pleasant aroma, which becomes especially distinct in the evening. The flowers of the plant, also called gray honeysuckle, are yellowish or white inside and reddish outside. Flowering lasts 15-20 days. Decorative berries of a honeysuckle, an orange-red shade ripen in early August and decorate it until late autumn.

Important! The fruits of this plant are inedible, as they contain poisonous substances.

Brown Honeysuckle

This species belongs to the fast-growing liana shrubs. Brown variety is a plant capable of reaching five meters in height. A characteristic feature - juicy shoots and leaves in the shape of an ellipse, the top of which is bright green and the bottom gray-blue. In the same way as in the honeysuckle, this variant has two pairs of leaves located on the edges of the shoots, which are spliced ​​into two continuous disks.

The flowering of this species is very abundant, during this period the plant is covered with bright flowers of carrot-red tint. Brown blooming honeysuckle can be seen in June-July. Duration of flowering is 3 weeks, sometimes secondary flowering is possible, which occurs in August-September.

This species tolerates winter well, but in freezing cold it freezes. Nevertheless, due to the active growth, which is inherent in all climbing species, the shrub is quickly restored, even after a severe winter. For "Brown" is best suited open solar areas, protected from wind gusts and drafts.

Did you know? According to one version, the name of this plant comes from the combination of the two words "life" and "youth."

Albert's Honeysuckle

Ornamental variety Alberta is a graceful shrub, reaching 1.2 meters in height. It is distinguished by its thin and sprawling, but at the same time drooping branches. The leaves are rather narrow and small, with a light blue-green tint. They keep on the branches until late autumn. On their background lilac-pink fragrant flowers that adorn the bush for 15-20 days look great. The fruits of "Albert" are quite large, almost completely white, which is why they stand out clearly against the background of dense foliage. Sometimes the color of the fruit takes a light purple hue.

The plant has good drought tolerance and is able to tolerate urban conditions.. Due to this, from the honeysuckle of the climbing variety Albert it is possible to form both small borders and whole hedges. This site is not recommended to land in northern latitudes due to its insufficient resistance to frost.

Important! For "Albert" it will be useful to slightly deepen the root neck of the plant.

Henry's Honeysuckle

A semi-evergreen liana, characterized by a moderate growth rate, came to us from Eastern Tibet and China. Henry's honeysuckle can grow to a height of 2.5 meters. This species tolerates a lack of sunlight and able to grow in shading. During the flowering period, a lot of fragrant, tubular, bright pink or brownish-red flowers bloom on the shrub, gathering in pairs in rare inflorescences. The flowering of this variety begins in mid-summer (in July). The fruits ripen in September-October and are ornamental purple-black berries, which are tightly pressed to the leaves.

Important! Pruning is best done in the spring, immediately after the appearance of the first buds. Pruning need to cut above the bud, with a garden pruner.

Honeysuckle Caprifol-German

The German variety, which is represented by a tall shrub reaching a height of 5 meters, also belongs to the curly porcelain. This species has the same large leaves, like the usual honeysuckle, with a dark green top and a bluish bottom, but unlike the honeysuckle, it does not have grown together leaves on the tips of the shoots. It grows quite well in conditions of partial shade, resistant to drafts. The flowering time is June-August, although sometimes it can continue in September. Honeysuckle of this variety, as an ornamental climbing plant, is distinguished by its flowers of various shades: yellow-pink, white, purple. Decorative fruits of dark red color, ripen closer to the end of summer (in August). During winter, annual shoots may freeze slightly, but due to intensive growth, the shrub recovers fairly quickly. In most cases, the shoots are blooming, which appeared in the current year, so that the decorativeness of this climbing honeysuckle does not suffer.

Did you know? The plant can live in one place for more than twenty years.

Gokrota's Honeysuckle

This variety is a hybrid, which turned out to cross the species "evergreen" and "American." The height of this variety is 4 meters. Leaves - elliptical, wide, but with a sharp edge, reach a length of 10 centimeters. Two-colored flowers are closed in buds, creamy-white inside and pink-orange outside. Many tubular flowers form large inflorescences that produce a unique scent.

The flowering period lasts from June to September, sometimes it can continue in October, but with less intensity. Despite the fact that this variety of honeysuckle bloom lasts longer than others, there is no fruiting hybrid.

Gerald Honeysuckle

This grade does not shed its leaves in autumn, unlike other lianovidnyh. A distinctive feature is slightly twisted leaves that remain green, even at -25 ° C. They stay all winter and showered only with the onset of spring. At this time, the young foliage begins to actively replace the old leaves, and the plant itself releases many new shoots.

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Thanks to such amazing properties, Gerald's honeysuckle can decorate any design that will be decorated with green foliage almost all year round. At the very beginning of flowering, the plant dissolves yellow or white flowers, which after some time acquire an orange-yellow shade. Flowering is a special period that both experienced gardeners and beginners eagerly await. Immediately after Gerald's honeysuckle begins to bloom in the neighborhood, a distinct aroma that is similar to the jasmine scent spreads around.

Did you know? Known to many "wolfberry" also refers to the described plant.

Telman's Honeysuckle

Evergreen vine, whose height is 5-6 meters, has oblong, blunt leaves up to 10 centimeters in length. From above they are bright green, from below - blueish. The upper pair of leaves grows together.

Telman's honeysuckle can be recognized by its flower - it is two-lipped, forms an inflorescence consisting of two whorls. Flowering is very abundant, occurs in June and lasts 12 days. Fruits are orange-yellow in color.

First of all, the Telman variety is valued for its spectacular and abundant flowering, as well as for its dense foliage. Plant perfect to create vertical gardening. Vegetation begins in mid-April and ends with the onset of the first autumn frosts (mid-October). Differs in average winter hardiness, therefore for the winter the plant is recommended to be covered with protective material.

Honeysuckle creepers are very demanding on soil moisture and fertility. Also this plant is light-requiring, but capable of abundant flowering, even in partial shade.

Primorye Honeysuckle (serotina)

Serotina is a fast-growing liana that can rise up to five meters on a support. The annual growth of the plant is 2 meters. It is a highly decorative liana, with a long flowering period.

Most often, the blooming of honeysuckle curling serotina begins in the spring (in April), and ends in the fall (in September). At this time, the plant dissolves the buds of a dark red, almost burgundy hue, with a delicate cream "core." By the end of flowering, they begin to turn pale. If you remove the bloomed inflorescences in a timely manner, then you can enjoy the amazing flowering and the wonderful aroma accompanying it until the fall.

Primorska honeysuckle loves sunshine, but also grows well in conditions of partial shade. For growing need a nutritious soil, with a moderate level of humidity. Externally, the plant of this variety is similar to Kaprifol, but unlike it, it blooms brighter flowers during flowering. The plant also has one big advantage - it quite rarely affected by various phyto-diseasesbecause serotina or Primorskaya honeysuckle has a natural immunity to them.

This unusual plant will perfectly decorate both a classic arbor and a rocky site, a heather garden or an alpine slide. Apply a little effort and you are guaranteed to be satisfied with the result.

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