Box Honeysuckle

Box Honeysuckle Care

Lonicera Nitida

What is the plant

Lonicera nitida, the evergreen honeysuckle from the honeysuckle family, provides year-round fresh green in the garden with its leaves. The small shrub, which depending on the variety can grow a maximum of 100 cm high and up to 80 cm wide, is often used as a boxwood substitute. Many hobby gardeners regularly cut it into shape, so that the bushes produce hearts, balls or animals according to their preferences. It is very easy to care for and is also kept in the bucket.

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Lighting

Full Sun

Difficulty

Easy

How to Care for the Plant

Water
Evergreen honeysuckle want to be watered regularly, especially during the growing season. Occasional dehydration does not affect the plants. However, they need good irrigation in longer periods of drought so that they are not weakened too much.Tip: Only water when the upper layer of soil has dried off, both when planting in the tub and when planting in the garden.
Pruning
Lonicera nitida is well cut tolerant and is cut by many hobby gardeners after flowering in early summer. If you like, you can also ripen the purple little berries that form from the fragrant flowers. The birds like the berries very much in winter as food. However, they are slightly toxic to humans!
Fertilizer
Start fertilizing the purchased honeysuckle at the earliest one year after planting. Crops grown from cuttings can be fertilized with good compost right from the start. Container plants provide you with commercially available liquid fertilizer every 4 to 8 weeks in spring and summer.

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Sunlight
Lonicera nitida thrives most beautifully in sunny locations, but also copes well in the shade.
Soil
In humus-rich, well-drained and nutrient-rich substrate the embankment myrtle grows best. Basically, however, it hardly makes any claims and therefore also copes with all other soils. The substrate should not be too moist. When planted in a bucket, conventional container potting soil is well-suited, which is slightly loosened up with clay granules.
Temperature
The evergreen honeysuckle is good frost hardy and tolerates depending on the variety -15° to -20° C

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Additional
The birds like the berries very much in winter as food. However, they are slightly toxic to humans!
Popularity
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