Having our own garden, we want to equip it so that the eye is happy. All gardeners, even amateurs, having planted curly honeysuckle on their site, will receive a beautiful decorative decoration for arbors, arches, fences.
She will delight not only with rich greens, but also with abundant color and excellent aroma.
The choice of varieties is quite extensive, so both experienced gardeners and beginners will be able to choose a honeysuckle bush to their liking. Here is a description of the most famous varieties:
Decorative: dense liana, abundantly covered with bright green foliage and flowers, exuding a wonderful aroma. The main decorative element is dark red fruits.
Flowering: June - October, fruit ripening in August.
Features: flowering and fruiting occurs 3 - 4 years after planting.
Don't worry if the shoots are a little cold. Flowers are formed on this year's shoots
Soil: moist and fertile soils.
2. Honeysuckle Dropmore Scarlet.
Decorativeness: flowering liana, young shoots of which have a green-blue tint, and in the sun turn into burgundy. Honeysuckle blooms with long crimson-orange flowers.
Flowering: June - first frost.
Features: the growth during the year is 50 cm.
Soil: Suitable for all types of soils.
3. Honeysuckle Golden Trumpet.
Decorative: sprawling, climbing plant, has bright light green leaves. Flowers are odorless, yellow, turning into golden - copper color.
Flowering: from early June until September.
Features: with good support, it can grow up to 4 meters in height.
Soil: Generally drained and fertile.
Decorative: bright green liana with violet - purple flowers, which has an excellent aroma. The fruits are deep red in color.
Flowering: early flowering variety. The first bloom in May - June, repeated - from July to the first frost. Fruit ripening - September - October.
Features: hardy honeysuckle.
Soil: preferably fertile soil.
5. Honeysuckle Hekroth.
Decorativeness: 4-meter green liana, for a long time pleases with two-color large flowers, an additional decoration is shiny red fruits.
Flowering: from June to the first frost, fruit ripening - August - October.
Features: non-frost-resistant variety, requires mandatory shelter for the winter.
Soil: fertile and moist soils.
6. Thälmann's honeysuckle.
Decorative: bright green liana, capable of reaching 7 meters in length. Appreciated for the beauty of orange - golden flowers. The yellow fruits are small in shape.
Flowering: June - July, fruit ripening - July - September.
Features: demanding of the conditions of its existence.
Soil: well-drained, moist, sufficiently fertilized.
Below we suggest you watch a video about the flowering of the decorative variety "Primorskaya":
The following ground cover plants are used for landscaping:
Decorativeness: shrub with spreading branches. The main decorative element is white double flowers.
Flowering: mid-June - first half of July.
Features: used as a hedge.
Soil: feels great on all types of soil.
2. American Beauty Honeysuckle.
Decorative: shrub with large orange flowers that are odorless. Bright orange fruits complement the beautiful picture.
Blossoming: during the summer and through September, ripening of berries - August - October.
Features: tough shoots, loosely wrapped around the support.
Soil: well fertilized and well-drained soil.
3. Brown's honeysuckle.
Decorative: deciduous liana with dark green foliage. Abundant flowering with bright and fragrant flowers.
Flowering: like the previous variety, from June to late September.
Features: ground cover vine.
Soil: All types of soils are suitable.
Decorativeness: a beautifully flowering liana with dark green foliage, beautifully sets off the dark red flowers that fill the whole garden with their aroma.
Flowering: June - August, fruits ripen in July - October.
Features: Used as a beautiful shrub or groundcover.
Soil: moist, well-drained soil.
5. Honeysuckle Graham Thomas.
Decorativeness: an evergreen liana of a dark green color, which retains its appearance even in winter. The flowers are collected in yellow-red inflorescences, filling the garden with aroma. The fruits are red in color.
Flowering: June - September, in September, flowering is repeated, bears fruit from July to October.
Features: in the south it is suitable for vertical gardening, in the north it is used as a ground cover plant.
Soil: moist, fertile soil.
Common forest honeysuckle, or wolfberry. The fruits are used in traditional medicine
Note: the fruits of decorative honeysuckle are inedible!
For vines, you need to choose a well-lit planting site. In partial shade, the plant will also feel good.
Before planting, you need to decide how the honeysuckle will be used:
After the purpose of the plant has been chosen, it is necessary to prepare a place for planting.
Most species need fertile, well-drained soil, so a mixture of soil, mineral fertilizers and humus should be poured into the prepared hole.
It's important to know: if you want the vine to grow significantly in area in the future, it is necessary to plant the cuttings not in a hole, but in a trench, which must also be prepared for planting.
The plant is easy to grow, and if you follow certain rules, you can get a beautiful decoration for your garden, which will be admired for many years. During hot seasons, it is necessary to ensure good watering, but do not forget about drainage when planting. Watering is necessary when there is no bright sun: in the morning or in the evening.
After watering, loosen the soil under the plant to prevent crust formation. Curly young shoots must initially be carefully attached to the support, over time they will become stiff and will firmly adhere to the support structure.
The vine should be cut in the second year after planting. If left in the form in which it grows, then the honeysuckle will very quickly turn into a tangled ball of branches. Frozen shoots are cut. If you renew the plant occasionally by cutting off the branches, you will get a lush and long flowering.
For the winter, honeysuckle should be covered, even if it is hardy. This should be done in late autumn, before the first frost.
Note: the plant should be laid in front of the shelter not on bare ground, but on boards or a dense layer of leaves.
When the vine has been living in your garden for quite a long time, you should not detach the stems from the support and wrap them up, because suckers have already formed on it, which have grown to the support, thereby you can injure the plant along its entire length. Choose from 2 options:
Honeysuckle should be opened in early spring, when the threat of frost has passed, somewhere in mid-April.
There are several types of honeysuckle breeding:
As you can see, the selection of honeysuckle varieties is quite large and caring for it is no more difficult than for other vines. It is recommended to use honeysuckle in combination with climbing roses and clematis.
We suggest you watch a video on how to properly plant and care for wild honeysuckle:
Curly honeysuckle looks more advantageous in an upright position. Its stems are so plastic that they allow you to create almost any structure: in the form of an arch, trellis, you can wrap a gazebo with it or beautifully run it along the fence. It all depends on the imagination and wishes of the summer resident or gardener. The plant has many varietal varieties, simple and unpretentious to care for, and everyone can choose the perfect variety of climbing honeysuckle for themselves.
There are more than 200 varieties of honeysuckle, moreover, they can be in the form of climbing vines or ornamental flowering shrubs. There are even edible varieties of jasmine.
But Russian flower growers prefer curly varieties more. Since it is these vines that have shoots with dense foliage that rises high up, and also have original-looking flowers, most of which are fragrant. The bright fruits give the plant a special appeal, but, as a rule, they are poisonous in the curly decorative honeysuckle.
There are a number of varieties of honeysuckle that are most popular:
There are other varieties, but these vines are mainly grown on Russian flower beds. The fact is that these varieties are more tolerant to the climatic conditions of Russian regions.
It is quite easy to care for the planted honeysuckle, it is enough to carry out elementary measures in the form of:
And it is also necessary to regularly loosen the earth, moreover, this must be done deep enough - about 20-25 centimeters. To remove all existing weeds around the vine, this prevents it from developing. Sprinkling can be periodically carried out; these measures have a positive effect on decorative vines.
You can prune honeysuckle both in early spring and after shedding the leaves. Vine formation, as well as sanitary pruning, are carried out every year, but anti-aging pruning is done every 3-4 years. To do this, all old shoots are completely cut off from the vines almost to the base, only 3-5 young and strong trunk are left. Moreover, such rejuvenation can be carried out at a time, but then the honeysuckle will not bloom this year, or you can do it gradually, renewing one shoot every year. Young shoots also need to be shortened, leaving them no more than 50 centimeters in length.
Blooming honeysuckle requires periodic fertilization. Well-fertilized soil during planting provides the climbing vine with nutrients for several years to come. If during the planting work the soil was fertilized, then there is no need to additionally feed the honeysuckle. If not, then you can fertilize the vine with complex dressings, but do this no more than once every 40-50 days.
If honeysuckle develops poorly, then foliar feeding can be made in the form of phosphorus-potassium compounds. And before wintering, fertilize with manure or wood ash.
Each gardener tries to decorate his garden plot in a special way, to bring his own flavor and personality. Climbing plants that imitate hedges are very popular today. Decorative curly honeysuckle due to the flexibility and elasticity of its shoots perfectly copes with the task. This climbing plant in the shortest possible time is able to twine around a fence, a gazebo, an arch and other elements, creating an alley, an alpine slide or a green fence, thereby transforming the site. Today, there are more than 100 varieties of climbing honeysuckle. This plant is quite unpretentious to care for, grows quickly, exudes a pleasant aroma during flowering and looks very beautiful.
Curly honeysuckle has been studied for a long time. Back in the 18th century, the then famous Russian scientist Stepan Krashennikov mentioned it. In his writings, he described her as a curly, erect, creeping shrub belonging to the Honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae). But it got its Latin name thanks to the Swedish botanist and zoologist Karl Linnaeus (1707-1778), who named it honeysuckle after the 16th century German mathematician, physicist and botanist Adam Lonitzeri (Adamus Lonicerus 1528-1586) in 1753. Carl Linnaeus originally planned to call curly honeysuckle Caprifolium, since in European countries the most common variety of honeysuckle Caprifolium was found.
Interesting. Various types of curly steel honeysuckle spread massively in Russia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Today, according to The Plant List, there are 103 species of curly honeysuckle.
Conventionally, they can be divided into several groups, depending on their appearance:
All types of climbing honeysuckle have strong, flexible branches, regardless of whether it is climbing or growing in the form of a tree. The leaves are bright, green, often grow together with each other.
Honeysuckle flowers are quite unusual: large, are located in pairs at the ends of the branches, can have a varied shade (cream, white, crimson, gold, purple, pink). A whisk comes out of the cup, presented in the form of a tube, divided into 5 parts. All varieties have one thing in common: attractive appearance and pleasant aroma during the flowering period. The longest flowering species is considered to be the Korolkov variety. Its flowering lasts from May to August, then fruits appear in place of flowers, serving for decorative purposes.
In Russia, the period of flowering of decorative honeysuckle begins in May and lasts until June-July, depending on the variety.
The fruits of curly honeysuckle are most often not edible, resemble berries in shape, are arranged in pairs, and often grow together. The color of the fruits can also be varied, for example, common honeysuckle is characterized by brightly scarlet fruits, blue honeysuckle - by fruits of a purple hue (its fruit is edible). Fruiting does not have a good harvest. For the season, edible fruits can be harvested, depending on the variety, up to 2-4 kg per bush. When fully ripe, the berries usually fall off.
In the wild, you can find honeysuckle with poisonous berries. For example, in central Russia, on the edges of forests, real honeysuckle grows (in a folk way). After flowering yellow-white flowers, small poisonous red berries, popularly called "wolf berries", appear on it.
The most common types of honeysuckle grown for decorative purposes in various regions of Russia can be distinguished:
Depending on the variety, some climbing honeysuckle has good winter hardiness, while some species require additional shelter with the arrival of the first frost.
Decorative curly honeysuckle requires care, then the reproduction and growth of the shrub will not take long.
Depending on the variety, certain types of decorative honeysuckle grow well in the shade, but, according to experienced gardeners, it is better to give preference to sunny areas, protected from drafts by fences or walls of the house. Most often, honeysuckle is unpretentious to the type of soil.
On a note. For better survival, honeysuckle is recommended to be purchased from specialized firms in plastic containers that guarantee no damage to the roots.
Preparation for planting includes fertilization. The soil is fertilized in a standard way: with the help of manure, tree resin, humus, which are scattered over the soil surface and dug up to the full depth of the bayonet with a shovel. This procedure is performed a couple of weeks before planting. Saplings are planted in open ground, both in late autumn and early spring.
Landing is carried out in separate pits with a depth and diameter of about 50 cm, the distance between them should be several meters. The soil can be mixed with organic fertilizers, for example, fertilizer for ornamental shrubs under the Chistyi List trademark (300 gr. 50-60 rubles RF *). When planting, mix 90 gr. with 2-3 kg of soil.
Subsequently, this drug can be used as a monthly plant feeding by dissolving 2-3 teaspoons in 5-7 liters of water per 1 bush. You can repeat the procedure every 20 days.
Important! It is better to plant seedlings in the early morning. Use warm water to water only planted seedlings.
Pour crushed stone (about 0.5 kg) into the prepared hole at the bottom, which will act as a drainage layer, pour a bucket of water at room temperature, place the seedling, evenly distributing the roots over the hole. Sprinkle with prepared soil without covering the root collar. Lightly trample the ground with your hands. Pour a bucket of water again.
Important! You need to plant a seedling in such a way that the root collar is not covered with earth, otherwise it can rot and the plant will not be accepted.
Curly honeysuckle does not require special care, watering is moderate, weed removal as needed. When forming arches or hedges, supports are prepared in advance, shoots are distributed on them, thereby forming the desired shape. However, honeysuckle requires regular pruning. The first pruning is carried out in early spring, when branches that have suffered after wintering and damaged branches are cut. During the summer season, the plant is also trimmed and tied to form the desired shape.
When considering the main characteristics of decorative honeysuckle, its important advantage is the ability to form a unique landscape design without visible financial costs, since all work on caring for the plant can be done independently. In addition, it is possible to plant different varieties of plants next to each other, creating beautiful flower arrangements in the form of hedges and arches. In the warm season, curly honeysuckle will delight the eye with bright flowers, and in the autumn period it will attract attention with colored berries of various shapes.
The disadvantages of decorative honeysuckle include regular care. In addition to the standard procedures for watering, fertilizing the soil, preparing individual varieties for the winter period, curly honeysuckle constantly needs pruning and garters to maintain the desired shape. It is this factor that repels a number of gardeners from growing this plant on their site.
Many people mistakenly believe that growing curly honeysuckle is a complex process that requires a lot of time and effort. Of course, at first, to give the plant the desired shape, it requires increased attention and care. But after a few years, it will take much less time to care for it. As a reward, the personal plot will delight the eye with a beautiful landscape design for a long period of time.
Ornamental curly honeysuckle is planted for vertical gardening. The plant is represented by many species and varieties. Growing honeysuckle is quite simple, you just need to provide proper care and make the necessary dressings. Every gardener can propagate a plant, regardless of his skill level.
The genus Honeysuckle includes up to 200 species of shrubs and lianas, including crops. In gardening, preference is given to decorative curly species. Their densely leafy stems rise high, the flowers are unusually beautiful and often fragrant. The fruits are brightly colored. In climbing vines, they are often poisonous.
Honeysuckle Honeysuckle 
Curly Honeysuckle 
Brown's honeysuckle 
Honeysuckle Tatarskaya 
Korolkov's honeysuckle 
Gerald's honeysuckle Like other climbing vines and ornamental shrubs, honeysuckle reproduces by seed and vegetatively.
The most reliable breeding method is cuttings of green shoots... Shoots of the current year are cut into cuttings with two or three internodes. Broken off lateral shoots with a "heel" also take root well.
Important! Cuttings are cut during the period when green fruits appear on the bush. Shoots ready for grafting are fragile and break with a cracking sound when bent.
Cuttings are immediately planted in light soil for rooting in a shaded place. If the site does not have a greenhouse or greenhouse where it is easier to maintain high humidity, cuttings can be covered with cut plastic bottles without a lid.
Honeysuckle seeds Under optimal conditions, the cuttings will take root after 10 days.
Advice. Rooted cuttings should be transplanted to a permanent place in the spring.
Seeds must be stratified (kept at temperatures up to + 3º for several months) and sown in early spring. Stratified seeds give amicable shoots, without this procedure, a smaller part of the seeds germinates, and seedlings develop slowly. Seedlings bloom in 5 years.
Important! During seed propagation, the varietal properties of the plant are not preserved.
Digging in branches of honeysuckle in spring, you can get good planting material by autumn - layering... Also, honeysuckle gives rise to growth used for reproduction.
Ornamental honeysuckle is planted on the south side of the house. It grows and blooms well in sunny areas and in partial shade. In shade, the plant will also grow, but the bloom will not be as abundant.
A young bush of honeysuckle should immediately be tied to a support Ornamental honeysuckle does not grow in sandstone and clayey wet soils. All other soils are quite suitable for growing it. The plant prefers loose fertile soils with a neutral alkaline reaction and good drainage.
Advice. When choosing a planting site, it is worth remembering that decorative honeysuckle grows quickly and requires strong support.
Planting is carried out in early autumn, possibly even at the end of August. The planting pits are generously filled with organics and minerals. The roots of the seedling are pruned, straightened and carefully sprinkled with earth. The root collar is not deepened. It must remain at ground level. The planting site must be abundantly watered and mulched.
Advice. It is advisable to plant several types of honeysuckle at the same time on the site. So the plants will be better pollinated and bloom more abundantly.
Further care for curly honeysuckle is extremely simple. It comes down to abundant watering several times over the summer, loosening the soil and removing weeds, pruning vines. They loosen the soil under the honeysuckle deeply, by 20 cm. Honeysuckle reacts very well to sprinkling.
It is very important to water the honeysuckle on time. Pruning is carried out in March or post-leaf fall. Forming and sanitary trimmings are needed annually, rejuvenating once every 2-3 years. When rejuvenating, old trunks are cut out, leaving 5-6 younger and well-developed ones. Old bushes periodically completely rejuvenate. To do this, pruning is carried out "under the stump", leaving several shoots of 50 cm.
Important! It is not advisable to shorten young shoots, since many flower buds are laid in their tops.
Abundantly flowering plants require fertilization. Decorative honeysuckle is no exception. A well-fertilized soil when planted is able to provide the plant with nutrients for several years. In this case, additional feeding is not needed.
Every spring, honeysuckle needs to be fed. In the future, in early spring and after flowering, a complex mineral fertilizer is applied under the honeysuckle. If development is weak, foliar feeding with phosphorus-potassium fertilizers is possible. In the fall, rotted manure or compost and wood ash are introduced for digging.
Under favorable growing conditions, decorative honeysuckle is rarely affected by diseases and pests. However, in a too rainy summer, the development of fungal and phyto-viral diseases, such as cerposorosis, rust, powdery mildew, etc., is possible. The affected leaves become stained, and eventually wither and fall off.
Powdery mildew on honeysuckle Of the pests for the plant are dangerous: honeysuckle aphids and mites, scale insects, fingerworms. The first signs of trouble should serve as a signal for spraying with special products.
Ornamental curly honeysuckle is loved by gardeners for its lush bloom and fragrant aroma. In cultivation, it is unassuming and is able to decorate large areas, braid or an arch in a short time.
Curly honeysuckle attracts gardeners with its plasticity. Making timely pruning and garters of bushes, you can decorate a fence, gazebo, pergola or other garden structure with these vines.
Curly decorative honeysuckle will allow you to disguise an unsightly wall of a structure: a barn, a bath, or hide a country toilet under liana-like bushes. In general, the use of these vines in the garden is limited only by the imagination of its owner.
You can't immediately understand which side of the creeper has roots, and where is the top. This property of these plants is widely used in landscape design.
Currently, there are more than two hundred and fifty varieties and forms of climbing honeysuckle. In order to cover this variety, a thick illustrated guide is required. We will try to tell you about some of the most popular representatives of this extensive line of plants.
Fragrant honeysuckle, or honeysuckle, lat. Lonicera caprifolium is a perennial, deciduous vine that, with proper care, can grow up to six meters in length. This type of plant is the most popular in our gardens, it was with it that the fascination with honeysuckle of decorative varieties began among many gardeners.
During the season, this vine is able to give a two-meter increase and calmly wrap around a pergola or climb high on the wall of a gazebo or a country house. Honeysuckle is frost-resistant, only the very tips of the shoots are subject to freezing.
Oddly enough, a warm winter can harm this honeysuckle more than a cold one. Frequent thaws cause swelling of the kidneys, which can die after the onset of frost. But even honeysuckle, which is frozen in such conditions, is capable of reviving from root buds that give offspring.
Honeysuckle blooms in early summer with bright flowers for 15-20 days. The outer part of the buds is colored with orange-red tones and white-yellow inside.
But even after flowering, the curly honeysuckle of the honeysuckle species continues to delight with its decorative effect. The berries, greenish at first, gradually turn red, and a rather picturesque picture appears to our eyes.
German honeysuckle, lat. Lonicera periclymenum, similar to the previous species, but differs in color variety of buds: from white to purple. Flowering in this species is longer and sometimes lasts until September. The fruits of the German honeysuckle are dark red.
Attention! The berries of the decorative curly honeysuckle are inedible!
German honeysuckle flowers Brown's honeysuckle, lat. Lonicera brownie is distinguished by the carrot color of its buds, which appear twice a season: first in June-July, and again in August. Preferring sunny areas without drafts, this species tolerates winters well, and if it freezes a little, it quickly recovers.
This honeysuckle, lat. Lonicera henryi, belongs to the semi-evergreen species, that is, it does not completely shed its leaves for the winter, but some of them remain on the bush. In growth, it is significantly inferior to other forms, barely reaching two and a half meters. It has brown-red tubular buds that give off a marvelous aroma in mid-July. Black berries are also decorative, ripening by September.
Curly Honeysuckle Henry This hybrid of American and evergreen honeysuckle, lat. Lonicera heckrottii, barely bears fruit. But Hecrotta can bloom for almost four months - from mid-June to October. Bud colors: yellow, cream, orange-pink. The liana grows in length up to four meters.
Seaside honeysuckle or Serotina, lat. Lonicera serotina, practically repeats the popular honeysuckle in everything, only its flowers are brighter, and the vine itself looks more compact, although it stretches almost five meters in length.
Seaside Honeysuckle - Serotina Gerald's honeysuckle, lat. Lonicera giraldii, unlike other species, is evergreen. Its leaves remain on the vine all winter. In the most severe frosts, they curl into a tube, but continue to hang on the branches, decorating your garden with greenery.
In the spring, old leaves crumble under the pressure of fresh blooming buds. Blossoming aroma is comparable to the smell of jasmine-mock-orange, and the color of the buds changes from white to lemon-yellow.
The Honeysuckle curly belgica select blooms twice during the season. The first stage of buds begins to bloom in May on last year's shoots, the second - from the beginning of July on this year's growth. Liana reaches a length of three meters with an annual meter increment. The flowers have purple hues.
Belgica select honeysuckle Reproduction of decorative curly honeysuckle is carried out mainly in two vegetative ways:
layering;
by cuttings.
In order to get a seedling in the first way, in early spring, after the snow melts and the soil thaws, a well-developed branch at the bottom of the plant is selected and bent to the ground, after which it is pinned with a wire clip or simply pressed with a piece of board or stone. During the season, roots form at the point of contact of the branch with the soil, after which in the fall or spring of next year, the seedling can be separated and transplanted to a permanent place.
Honeysuckle cuttings are carried out in mid-July. At the same time, cuttings with two or three internodes are cut, leaving only a couple of upper leaves on them. The shafts prepared in this way are planted in a greenhouse or cuttings.
Advice! The simplest cuticle can be easily made from everyone's favorite plastic bottle by cutting off the bottom of it. Covering the handle without a bottom, do not forget to unscrew the plug to let the air through.
Planting curly honeysuckle and caring for it begins with the preparation of holes in a specific location. Depending on the type of plant, you need to choose a sunny or shaded place. In addition, you need to immediately decide on what the vine will rely on during its growing season.
The distance between the plants depends on the varietal characteristics and location in the garden: for a continuous fence, planting is done tightly, for individual structures - more freely.
It is more convenient to grow curly honeysuckle immediately with some kind of support, this makes it easier to care for it and pruning. The pits are made 50 by 50 centimeters in plan and the same size in depth. They are filled with drainage and nutrient mixture in half, after which the seedlings are lowered into them and the remaining nutrient soil is poured to the edge of the pit and watering is performed.
Advice! After planting, be sure to mulch the root circle and tie the young vine to a support!
Caring for curly honeysuckle comes down to several agrotechnical measures:
top dressing;
mulching.
Pruning of curly honeysuckle is carried out regularly. In the earliest spring, sanitary cutting of vines is carried out with the removal of frozen and broken branches. Throughout the summer season, with the help of pruners and garden shears, the plant is formed according to the garden design plan. Together with pruning, the honeysuckle curling to the supports is tied.
In the dry season, honeysuckle is rarely, but watered abundantly with mandatory mulching. A layer of nutritious mulch made from manure, humus or compost, among other things, will provide the plants with all the necessary nutrients and prevent the development of weeds.
For a better recovery of plants after the past winter, a charging spring feeding is carried out with herbal tea mixed with chicken droppings and ash.
And here is also a video about the flowering of the curly decorative honeysuckle Serotina:
