Lonicera x purpusii Bill Cawthon untroubled by clay or standing

untroubled by clay or standing water as long as the soil stays acid

or anywhere the hummingbirds can be watched working the summer flowers

and curled into quills or milled to the familiar warm-sweet powder used across baking

Buxus sempervirens 'Unraveled' breaks the upright

upright specimen for a sunny

Lonicera x purpusii Bill Cawthon untroubled by clay or standingIn the dead of winter, when the garden asks for little and gives less, Lonicera purpusii answers with perfume. This winter honeysuckle is a hybrid of two Chinese species, Lonicera fragrantissima and Lonicera standishii, and carries the best of both: small, creamy white, tubular flowers that open along the bare stems from late winter into early spring, throwing a clean, lemon sweet fragrance that carries yards on a mild day. The cross arose before 1920