{"id":9785,"date":"2017-03-27T00:29:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T23:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9785"},"modified":"2017-03-10T10:29:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T10:29:46","slug":"combine-columbine-and-honeysuckle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/combine-columbine-and-honeysuckle\/","title":{"rendered":"Combine Columbine and Honeysuckle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"111 by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4629288754\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4047\/4629288754_3e26b93e36.jpg\" alt=\"111\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like this combination of Aquilegia and Honeysuckle. The lobed leaves offset the spiky flowers.<\/p>\n<p>The Aquilegia is flowering with light purple almost lilac, open blossoms with darker spurs surrounding bright yellow stamen.<br \/>\nThe Honeysuckle is yet to get into flower but young buds are just forming at the end of the twisting stems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Honeysuckles<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"honeysuckle by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4834229179\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4086\/4834229179_1248c8d656.jpg\" alt=\"honeysuckle\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Honeysuckles, part of the Lonicera family, have sweetly-scented, bell-shaped flowers that produce a sweet, edible nectar.<\/li>\n<li>Breaking the Honeysuckle&#8217;s stem will release a powerful sweet odor.<\/li>\n<li>The fruit on honeysuckle are red, blue or black berries containing several seed.<\/li>\n<li>There are many Honeysuckle varieties to try but not all are prolific flowerers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Honeysuckle by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3856645228\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2422\/3856645228_7c3781ff29.jpg\" alt=\"Honeysuckle\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read about <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/honeysuckle-climbing-lonicera-varieties\/\">Honeysuckle as climbers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/aquilegia-growing\/\">Aquilegia Growing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Aquilegia pumilla Alba by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4609108819\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1178\/4609108819_95cf92bfae.jpg\" alt=\"Aquilegia pumilla Alba\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like this combination of Aquilegia and Honeysuckle. The lobed leaves offset the spiky flowers. The Aquilegia is flowering with light purple almost lilac, open blossoms with darker spurs surrounding bright yellow stamen. The Honeysuckle is yet to get into flower but young buds are just forming at the end of the twisting stems. Honeysuckles Honeysuckles, part of the Lonicera family, have sweetly-scented, bell-shaped flowers that produce a sweet, edible nectar. Breaking the Honeysuckle&#8217;s stem will release a powerful sweet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/combine-columbine-and-honeysuckle\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}