Please help with this shrub, which has small white/yellow flowers blooming late winter, oval leaves, and a very lovely honeysuckle fragrance. It's an evergreen shrub, the one I've seen is growing about 6' high and 5' or 6' wide, loosely rounded form, in Seattle. Thanks much!
It is a winter flowering shrubby Honeysuckle. Lonicera. Possibly one..... such a Lonicera x purpusii.
Lonicera fragrantissima is the most likely. You are liable to find a similar example in the Witt Winter Garden near the Graham Visitor's Center in the Washington Park Arboretum.
Thanks for your replies. Any fear of this being a problem in the NW? I read that L. fragrantissima can be invasive in the south.
No signs of seeding out in this region so far, that I know of. To check on such things look at a copy of Wild Plants of Greater Seattle - Second Edition by Arthur Lee Jacobson. Many east Asian plants that have gone bananas in the similar hot and wet summer climate of eastern North America are apparently quite inhibited from doing so here, by our cool and dry summers. Most of our weeds are Eurasian in origin.
