Box-leaf honeysuckle is an attractive ground cover with non-stop interest, including evergreen, boxwood-like foliage all year long; small, fragrant, funnel-shaped, creamy-white flowers in May; and ...

Native shrubs offer many benefits to the home landscape. Their value to wildlife and general ease of care are becoming better ...

Honeysuckle leaves falling into waterways can poison the water for developing frogs and salamanders. Those leaves also deplete the oxygen for other forms of life because they degrade so quickly.

Creating a hummingbird-friendly yard or garden is an ongoing learning process. This once-popular bush that hummers love is ...

Eric Akers, of Lawrence, works on clearing honeysuckle trees at Hidden Valley Camp, 3420 Bob Billings Parkway, Sunday afternoon. The honeysuckle was being removed so that other species of trees ...

A: There are many types of honeysuckle out there in the world, and your description would fit several of them. However, the most common one here in Texas has green leaves and produces black fruit ...

Lonicera nitida (box leaf honeysuckle) is an attractive, drought-tolerant, pest-free evergreen shrub. Reaching 4 feet to 6 feet tall and wide, the leaves are small and glossy.

Want to learn which common shrubs can be transformed into stunning bonsai trees? Discover the best species for bonsai cultivation and care and style tips.

If you’ve ever had to work on a tree leaf collection, no doubt you included a leaf from Indiana’s state tree. Also known as tulip poplar and yellow poplar, the tuliptree is actually not a poplar at ...

Q–The new leaves on my honeysuckle hedge are crinkled and rolled. They turn yellowish-green, then tan, but they have whitish undersides. What’s the problem?

That green is from leaves of the bush honeysuckle, a plant that grows 7 to 8 feet tall. It was first planted in Indiana in the 1950s and 1960s to attract birds, with its red berries and flowers.

There are FDA-approved treatments for COVID-19 such as Remdesivir or monoclonal antibodies, but honeysuckle and tree bark are part of a local herbalist's medicine.