Lonicera Baggesen S Gold Rhs
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Lonicera baggesen s gold rhs. The tubular or two lipped flowers. Lonicera nitida baggesen s gold is. Golden honeysuckle lonicera nitida baggesen s gold is a wonderfully dense evergreen. Glowing in the garden lonicera nitida baggesen s gold box honeysuckle is a dense spreading evergreen shrub with long arching stems clothed in small ovate golden yellow leaves that turn chartreuse in the fall.
In sun these take on a platinum blond cast in more shade they deepen to chartreuse. Details baggesen s gold is a dense. Bright golden yellow form. Lonicera nitida baggesen s gold from burncoose nurseries shrubby honeysuckles available online to buy information.
Baggesens gold has all these attributes plus bright foliage colour. Tiny cream flowers appear in spring which are eventually followed in fall by purple berries. Its colourful foliage is a buttery pale yellow in summer and a warm bronze in winter. It develops into a mound of arching branches covered with dainty golden leaves.
Golden shrubby honeysuckle looks fantastic when clipped into a neat form and its colourful foliage is beautifully decorated in spring with creamy white flowers. Variety or cultivar baggesen s gold baggesen s gold is a compact dense evergreen shrub with tiny ovate yellow to yellow green leaves and insignificant cream flowers in spring followed by sparsely produced pale violet fruit. Evergreen broadly oval leaves to 1cm in long white. Honeysuckle baggesen s gold other common names honeysuckle baggesen s gold synonyms lonicera baggesens gold family caprifoliaceae genus lonicera can be deciduous and evergreen shrubs or climbers with twining stems.
It has a slightly lower habit than the species and was introduced by niels baggesen of pembury kent. Just one yellow shoot appeared in his rows of lonicera nitida and it was propagated sometime between the second world war and 1967.