Plant Overview
The winter flowering, shrubby honeysuckle with very fragrant cream flowers that offer rare interest in the winter garden and bring the scent of midsummer into the coldest of days.
A shrub honeysuckle which produces its flowers on the bare wood in from December to April to enchant and enliven the senses on the dullest of mid-winter days. Good scent.
The small, cream-coloured flowers first appear among the largely evergreen leaves in early to mid-December, and often last well into April. Winter Beauty will form a large bush in time, with a height and spread of 2-3m, but can be confined to a smaller size by judicious pruning in late spring.
Plant near a path to take full advantage of the scent.
First recorded in 1923 by Alfred Rehder.
Height: 6'
Common name(s): Winter flowering honeysuckle
