Lonicera, Honeysuckle 'Honey Baby'

The plant grows as it appears just in any catalog. It may be noticed that the few online retailers that once sold this cultivar still do...Read More. It is attractive and blooms long but the fragrance doesn't not smell of the familiar japanese honeysuckle and is in of itself very faintly fragrant. It literally is like trying to hold a jar of honey to your nose. You'll only smell it up close only and it smells of honey. If you want this plant for aerial fragrance you'll be out of luck but it is otherwise a good performer and attractive in flower. A few branches grow quicker than others and can be kept in check with cutting those back.

This hybrid honeysuckle was selected for its fragrance and its compact, shrubby, non-climbing habit. It's a hybrid between Hall's Japanes...Read Moree honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica 'Halliana') and the European woodbine (Lonicera periclymenum 'Belgica Select'), bred in the Netherlands at the Boskoop Research Station for Ornamental Horticulture.

It forms a shrub to 4-6' tall and as wide. It may still put out an occasional climbing stem.

It blooms repeatedly from July till October if spent flower clusters are deadheaded before forming fruit.

The cultivar name is 'Novosa'. HONEY BABY is a registered trademark belonging to Pride of Place Plants.