Lonicera Nitida Baggesen S Gold Rhs

During his life he made numerous attempts to gain this coveted award after its introduction around 1967 but was repeatedly rebuffed.

Lonicera nitida baggesen s gold rhs. Genus populus are deciduous trees mostly very fast growing and large with male and female catkins on separate trees opening before the leaves. Lonicera nitida baggesen s gold from burncoose nurseries shrubby honeysuckles available online to buy information. Golden shrubby honeysuckle looks fantastic when clipped into a neat form and its colourful foliage is beautifully decorated in spring with creamy white flowers. In full sun or partial shade and in a container or open ground.

Bright golden yellow form. Lonicera nitida baggesen s gold is. Leaves of the baggesen s gold cultivar are bright gold especially when young. Leaves of lonicera nitida are exceptionally small half the size or smaller of their boxleaf namesake.

And they are borne in flat pairs forming a strikingly orderly rank on either side of each narrow stem. Equally at home in a perennial border or as a specimen shrub it. Evergreen broadly oval leaves to 1cm in long white. Tiny cream flowers appear in spring which are eventually followed in fall by purple berries.

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. Lonicera nitida baggesen s gold. Male catkins are the more ornamental female ones can be a nuisance from the cottony wind blown seeds details richardii is a spreading suckering deciduous tree to about 12m with lobed leaves greenish yellow above felted. 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.

Lonicera nitida baggesen s gold is a wonderfully dense evergreen. It develops into a mound of arching branches covered with dainty golden leaves. Its colourful foliage is a buttery pale yellow in summer and a warm bronze in winter. We aim to enrich everyone s life through plants and make the uk a greener and more beautiful place.

Lonicera nitida baggesen s gold only started its well deserved conquest of the world s gardens after the nursery had closed and was only recognised by the rhs in 1993 with an agm after his death. The royal horticultural society is the uk s leading gardening charity. In sun these take on a platinum blond cast in more shade they deepen to chartreuse.