Lonicera x 'Mandarin' revisited
I've been admiring the Mandarin honeysuckle on our arbor; it was a new plant to me last year, and happily is a sterile cultivar, developed by folks at UBC.
There are other lovely honeysuckles here that aren't so benign; a delightful-looking bush honeysuckle (Tartarian honeysuckle) now in fruit is apparently a rampant invasive in Ontario, and has popped up in Parc National du Bic and other "wild" places that we've visited recently. It's not a species that we grow in the SE United States, so I wasn't familiar with it. Attractive, but not in relatively undisturbed places.
A closer look at the Mandarin honeysuckle as we left for dinner this evening had us admiring the lovely hue of its flowers.
There are other lovely honeysuckles here that aren't so benign; a delightful-looking bush honeysuckle (Tartarian honeysuckle) now in fruit is apparently a rampant invasive in Ontario, and has popped up in Parc National du Bic and other "wild" places that we've visited recently. It's not a species that we grow in the SE United States, so I wasn't familiar with it. Attractive, but not in relatively undisturbed places.
A closer look at the Mandarin honeysuckle as we left for dinner this evening had us admiring the lovely hue of its flowers.
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