Honeysuckle

[nofeargardener]

So, my buddy and his nephews came over the other day to move some stuff out of my garage that he'd been storing. One of his nephews puts his nose to the wind and says.... "somethin' smells like Fruit Loops."

I smiled and pointed him over to the vines growing up & over our privacy fence and told him to go take a wiff.

Sure enough... apparently our honeysuckle smells like Fruit Loops. Love that smell.

As a side note... I lived in Battle Creek MI (cereal city) for a time. Kelloggs and Post both have factories there. You'd wake up in the morning, and no lie... the air almost always smelled like Sugar Smacks or Fruit Loops. mmmmmm........... sugary goodness.....

[w8in4dave]

Ohhhh yea we used to live in Toledo Oh. and right across from us was GM yup General Mills cereal city!!! Love the smell!! We have a honeysuckle right out or back door and on fathers day my stepdaughter walked out the back door and said "I don't know what it is but something smells really good out here" hubs said that would be~ Pointing to the honeysuckle~ "That" lol She's like Ohhhh yea!! lol

[Pharmer Phil]

I love the smell of honeysuckle

We go to Northfield, Mn. every once in awhile, just about 22 miles away...
Laura's favorite thing is to catch a whiff of the Malt O Meal plant...it does smell like breakfast

[w8in4dave]

The cereal plants remind me of my childhood

[Christy]

I have the japanese Honeysuckle { Lonicera japonica halliana} white and yellow flowers, Its invasive but long as it stays were its at in the back yard n not my flower or veg beds its all good It started by the garage, moved all around the back n up the tree. I planted some by the shed few years ago even put a fence up phor it to climb. some did but most of its behind the shed taking over the ground. I ripped the roots out the ground that got to close to the berry's
Its very Pretty n smells wonderful

[jack]

Gidday

Sure is beautiful stuff but unfortately down here it grows so rampant that it is considered a noxious weed in most places.

[w8in4dave]

It is considered a noxious weed here also ,but we dig up the lil ones and give them away, I like it because you can trim it back as far as you want and it still flowers and does so good. The other flower we had (Name escapes me) Hubbs used to trim it back all the time, twice a year if not more , it never did flower, I told him to give it a break from trimming but he just kept trimming and it never flowered... But the honeysuckle really is wonderful for someone who loves to trim all the time