Fragrant

Couldn’t resist stopping by this brilliant honeysuckle display on the way home today.

Ironical perhaps that you’ll find honeysuckle growing wild in many hedgerows yetto my mind it’s one of the delights of summer.

We have some climbing a fence at home, and it has been there a number of years, but in comparison to this it is simply a straggling climber, although its fragrance is as strong as ever.

No doubt it is that same strong scent which attracts honey bees, and indeed moths. Yet care advice seems to vary – some say you should prune immediately after flowering. Others say leave well alone. Either way, growing wild, or cultivated in a garden its fragrance can’t me missed.