Box Honeysuckle These shrubs are grown for foliage

Explore this garden shrub directory, covering colour, use, shape, size of shrubs. Shrubs like this one are quite magnificent and make wonderful specimen plants that attract the eye and make a centerpiece for your garden

Box Honeysuckle

Lonicera 'nitida Aurea'

These shrubs are grown for foliage

This shrub does not have any flowers

Shrubs like this one are quite magnificent and make wonderful specimen plants that attract the eye and make a centerpiece for your garden

Garden shrubs like this classed as an evergreen shrub. This means the shrub will keep its leaves (normally green) in winter season irrespective of the climate being hot, cold or mild. The most classic example of an evergreen is the fir tree

The shrub is considered hardy but this is a relative term and the degree of hardiness depends upon severity of climate. Seek specific advice if you live in a severe winter area

When fully grown this shrub will reach a height of about 4 feet and spread over an area of about 4 feet

Shrubs of this kind prefer soils with a pH of more than 7 to be seen at their best. Add lime to correct soil conditions for these shrubs (soil is then referred to as alkaline)

You can safely prune this shrub to achieve the look and shrub shape you want. The shrub will benefit from hard cutting normally

This shrub has spectacular and attractive foliage