honeysuckle twiglets
Posted: Wednesday, 27 August 2008 |
the honeysuckle twiglets are growing like jack鈥檚 beanstalk and there are flowers, I hope they stay this good when they are transplanted in the autumn,
the flowering currant is growing like mad too but alas the bush honeysuckle didn鈥檛 do so well,
the flowering currant is growing like mad too but alas the bush honeysuckle didn鈥檛 do so well,
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wow! i'm just getting started with our garden... but the wind and the sheep arn't helping much, i'd love some honeysuckle climbing about the place, the most we have climbing the walls is moss, not so colourful and it dosen't smell as nice. Happy gardening x
puddlejumper from lewis
I love honeysuckle, it always reminds me of my nan as there was a huge bush in her garden and it always hummed with bees.
Julie from lincolnshire
How very envious the ancient female parental unit would be (did she but have a computer) to see your healthy honeysuckle babies, IT. Cuttings sent at the same time to her in Shetland fading fast into obscurity. We're sorry the bush variety didn't step up to the mark. The NZ broadleaf is definitely not a griselinia, so we are awaiting a reply from our Tree Wife...
Flying Cat from feeling poplar
IT, you seem to just push things into the ground and they grow! The honeysuckle is lovely, at this rate it will cover your entire house next year.
Jill from EK
Honeysuckle grows like a weed here; it never even occurred to me that someone would actually plant it. I do love the smell and as a child I would suck the honey out of all the "ripe" ones. Fond memories...
thelovelyOutlander from across the Pond
Has the world discovered honeysuckle jelly yet, IT? I learnt about kudzu jelly recently, and just last week I discovered (local farmer's market) something called corn cob jelly (I'll try almost anything once).
mjc from IN, USA
Corncob jelly, mjc? I wonder if it's made from the whole corn cob, or if it's an ingenious way of recycling the centre parts once the corn has been stripped off? If so, kudos (not kudzu) to the person who thought of it, frugality personified. And what does it taste like? I assume you bought some...
Jill from EK
There was not much to buy, Jill - so I did buy a jar, hoping it would have hitherto unknown aphrodisiacal properties. I suspect the jelly is made using the center part, stripped of its corn. Tastes like corn syrup, but is rather more expensive. I sure hope the next time I go to a different Farmer's Market I don't come home with a jar of Squirrel Comfit.
mjc from IN, USA
The things I plant do not always grow but as they die I can't show photos of the failures just empty spaces, these have been planted in a fertile, fairly sheltered piece of ground, we will see what happens when they are in less fertile ground and more exposed to the elements, I don't buy jams or jellies is corn cob jelly sweet? Thanks for the NZbl update FC, how are the willow twiglets doing? or aren't they,
island threads from lewis
Oh sorry IT I forgot to mention the willow twiglets. As you might expect, they are doing fine, somewhere at the far end of the same fishbox!
Flying Cat from remembering a cat called Squirrel
Corn cob jelly is sweet. Tastes like corn syrup. Squirrel confit does not taste sweet: it tastes, well - defies description, IT. I always tell myself that, with the help of bourbon, anything can go down a human gullet.
mjc from IN, USA
I'm glad the willow twigs are fine fc, mjc thanks for the food info and have to agree about the bourbon,
island threads from lewis
If you ever pop back down here for a shufti IT, Tree Wife in Stromness says she's fairly sure it is Balsam Poplar. It's roots sound a bit scary, but will probably not grow to problematic proportions here in Orkney...or there in Lewis! It won't stop us planting them out anyway!
Flying Cat from consulting Jenny
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