Bonner County Daily Bee

I recently received a very welcome phone call from a young man inquiring about honeysuckle and wondering if it is the vine offering the same tubular flowers that he used to nibble from the end for the “honey.”

It made me recall an almost lost memory of doing just that as a youngster, and further, to incorporate it into an informative column readers may enjoy. Honeysuckle (Lonicera) is a hardy area native and I am blessed to have a healthy supply of it – in both of its forms – in my landscape; pictured is a lovely sprawl of vining Lonicera ciliosa on my front yard cedar “pillar.” It is not alone on the property however, because its shrubby “cousin” Twinberry (Lonicera utahensis – holds court on another site conducive to one of its more vital uses. One of the true harbingers of spring (after the Pussywillow {…