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VINE: Lonicera sempervirens (Trumpet Honeysuckle)
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic: Lonicera sempervirens Lonicera sempervirens
Low maintenance and showy, Trumpet Honeysuckle blooms intermittently until frost.
Check out Mary Free’s video of Hummingbirds feasting on Lonicera flowers. Continue reading
Flowers That Attract Pollinators and Robbers to a Garden
The shape, color, structure and odor of a flower usually determine the type of pollinators it attracts. A flower requires a pollinator that will visit it regularly and successfully transfer pollen in and/or between it and other flowers of its species to ensure fruit and seed production. For the service of pollination, the flower provides a reward: usually food such as nectar and/or pollen. Thus plants and their pollinators enjoy a mutualistic relationship. Continue reading
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Tagged Anemone hupehensis 'September Charm', Aquilegia canadensis, Asclepias, blue wood aster, Buddleia, butterfly bush, cardinal flower, common boneset, common milkweed, coneflowers, Creating Inviting Habitats, dahlia, Echinacea, goldenrod, Hyssop-leaf Thoroughwort, Iris versicolor, jewelweed, Joe-Pye Weed, Lonicera sempervirens, milkweed, Monarda, mutualistic, nectar robbers, New England Aster, Onethera speciosa, pollinator syndromes, Red Buckeye, Rudbeckia, salvia, Solidago, wild columbine
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Blooming RED, White, and Blue
As promised, here is a follow up to our Planning for the Red, White and Blue series on patriotic gardens. Enjoy your holiday and our pictures of some of the red, white, and blue flowers that we found blooming in local gardens on July 4 of years past. Continue reading
Posted in MG in the Garden
Tagged Achillea millefolium, Archilochus colubris, Lonicera sempervirens, Monarda didyma ‘Jacob Cline’, Patriotic gardens, pollinators, Red Flower Carpet®, red flowers, Rosa ‘Noare’, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Salvia microphylla, Scarlet Beebalm, small-leaf sage, trumpet honeysuckle, yarrow
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VINE: Lonicera sempervirens (Trumpet Honeysuckle)
Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
Low maintenance and showy, Trumpet Honeysuckle blooms intermittently until frost. Check out Mary Free’s video of Hummingbirds feasting on Lonicera flowers. Continue reading