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Honeysuckle 'Peaches and Cream'

last year

I have a flower box with a trellis on my patio. It is mostly in the shade. I really want to plant a honeysuckle there as I think it will tolerate the shade and I really want the fragrance. I am trying to avoid the highly invasive Japanese honeysuckle (though it will be confined to a box on my patio). However, I really am questioning if any of the others are worth planting at all if fragrance is my priority. I found this variety, 'Peaches and Cream,' that sounds like it might work, but I am not convinced it will be fragrant. I have seen too many honeysuckles branded as fragrant, but with practically no scent at all when I try them at the nursery. I want one I can enjoy enjoy while sitting at my patio table - not just when my nose is buried in the flowers. So basically... will any variety besides the invasive japonica fit the bill? What about this Peaches and Cream variety in particular?

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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
last year
ALL of the cultivars of Lonicera periclymenum, Dutch honeysuckle or woodbine, are fragrant. 'Peaches and Cream' should be no different.

Like taste, scent is a very subjective sense so what smells strongly and good to one individual may not have a similar impact on another. I find that honeysuckles' scent is best detected late day and into the evening, particularly when it has been basking in the sun most of the day.
Elana thanked gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
Elana
Original Author
last year
I don't know... the misleadingly named 'Scentsation' honeysuckle is a periclymenum and I don't think I have ever smelled a less fragrant flower in my life. ;) That's why I am seeking user reports. Aside from Peaches and Cream, I am also looking at Golden Flame, or any heavily fragrant variety that would work in my situation (shady flower box in Zone 5).
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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
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As I stated, scent is subjective. I have grown a number of varieties of periclymenum myself as well as spec'd them for numerous design clients and I have never failed to find them all strongly fragrant, Scentsation more so than most. However, planted in a shady position, they are unlikely to generate the same degree of fragrance than if they were planted in a full sun location.....which they much prefer.
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I have a honeysuckle harlequin - nice, variegated leaves and blooms in shade. It is fragrant to my nose.
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The ones I was sniffing were in full sun, though it was not late in the evening.

Thanks for your endorsement of Harlequin, getgoing. It could be a contender.

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