Box Honeysuckle Care

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.

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!

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.

Lonicera nitida thrives most beautifully in sunny locations, but also copes well in the shade.

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.

The evergreen honeysuckle is good frost hardy and tolerates depending on the variety -15° to -20° C

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

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