DECISIONS DECISIONS

do bothe lol

Oh no, you've used the W word! Wouldn't mind winter so much if it weren't so damned dark all the time.
Not sure what you mean by winter honeysuckle - what you got in mind? Jasmine nudiflorum not fragrant, but I expect you know that - only thing I'll say about fragrant plants is, it's all very well having a fragrant winter flowering plant, but unless the sun is out and it's a bit warm, the scent is largely undetectable without burying your nose in the flowers - this is certainly true of sarcoccoca, which can scent the whole garden on a warmish day, but might as well not be there on colder ones.

Have been oohing and aahing with the sarcoccoca quite like that the honeysuckle I have spotted is called Lonicera Purpusii
Im not an outdoors person in winter but do venture out once in a while so scent isnt a must have but would be nice (obviously down to mother nature)

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Looked it up - sounds like its really fragrant but looks like a bit of a messy twiggy heap - not a climber, as you know, but will get up to 10 feet high eventually. I want you to grow it and let us all know if you can smell it in the winter! And whether it's attractive as a shrub or not...

scary you sound like one of my teachers from school then
Yes m'am

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Winter honeysuckle shrub is a twiggy but garden-worthy plant. Quite prunable to control the size, and unrewarding most of the year, until the winter. The modest white flowers do make a pleasant visual contribution to the winter garden, and sweetly fragrant. It is quite a good idea to plant a group of different winter fragrant bushes together, so that the effect of their perfume adds up, so as to make a 'fragrant corner'. Viburnum Bodnatense would be a good companion, and perhaps some Sarcoccoca with it. And possibly a fragrant winter Daphne in there somewhewre as well. Common-as-muck Jasminum Nudiflorum (of Chinese origin) is highly to be commended. I hope you have the space. Good luck.

Does that mean you'll grow it then! Sorry, didn't mean to be bossy if that's how it seemed - it's cos you're young yet, still vulnerable to that kind of thing. When you get to my age, you never feel like that any more - you trust yourself more than anyone else, by and large. Well, until you start losing your marbles ...

I will grow it, It called to me so will give it a home along with the sorocccoca and possibly the Jasminum Nudiflorum perfect spot out the front for all of these

cheers everyone

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Just to throw a spanner in the works Mookins, I dug my out lonicera purpusii out this spring as it really didn't earn its keep. I have replaced it with viburnum tinus 'Eve Price' - not fragrant but flowers for six months. Winter jasmine will tolerate shade but flowers much better in the sun while sarcococcas want a shady spot.

you go for it mookins it will be an experiance one way or the other x x x x

so excited been digging the area for what seems like forever
just need the plants now

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When you've finished your digging Mookins, I've got all that new piece of garden that needs doing ;-)

hahahahahahaha

no thanks, im stung enough today to last me a life time

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oh, and if you want potted colour in winter, alyssums are really good.