Honeysuckle (Lonicera spp.) encompasses 180 species of flowering vines and shrubs known for their fragrant blooms and vibrant colors. In home gardens, vining varieties are particularly popular. Native ...

Discover how to grow five plants behind Arts & Crafts wallpapers in your own garden. These blooms inspired William Morris to create his iconic patterns.

Editor’s note: Once a month, OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Native shrubs offer many benefits to the home landscape.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Honeysuckle has a seemingly good reputation with home gardeners as a fragrant pollinator magnet. However, when it comes to the invasive, ...

CINCINNATI — A huge effort is underway in our area parks to clear honeysuckle plants. Why? It's an invasive species and it's literally choking our forests and putting our forests at risk for the next ...

This is the ideal time of year to combat invasive Japanese Honeysuckle, an aggressive shrub that takes over and smothers everything in its path. Woods and stream banks in southern Ohio are being taken ...

BOONE COUNTY, Ky. (WKRC) - Honeysuckle - it's everywhere. Even though it's pretty and smells nice, it's now called the "kudzu of the Midwest," a reference to the invasive vine that's taken over the ...

Butterfly southern bush honeysuckle (Diervilla sessilifolia 'Butterfly') is a nice shrub for the central Ohio landscape. This summer-flowering shrub grows as a mound with horizontal arching red ...

It’s a leaf-out freakout. Early spring and late fall are the times when it's easiest to find and remove bush honeysuckle because it usually has leaves when other plants don't, according to the ...

Some foreign species of this plant are so invasive they've given honeysuckle a notorious reputation. Fortunately for home gardeners who want a well-behaved flowering vine, the non-invasive cultivars ...

A flowering invasive Japanese honeysuckle trimmed into a shrub beside a paved, brick-walled patio. - butterfly's dream/Shutterstock We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.