Best placement is on a slope where the shrub arches up over you a bit, giving easy viewing of the flowers. Also works well in lightly shaded foundation plantings. Winter Honeysuckle A heavenly fragrance drifting through the air on a late winter day alerts you that bloom time has begun on this large and adaptable shrub. Winter Honeysuckle is useful as a hedge or screen or as a handsome backdrop in the shrub border. A must for every butterfly garden, as the first butterflies to arrive in early spring make a beeline for the lingering small, creamy white blossoms.
Foliage remains through the fall and into early winter here in the South.
Apply for the Niche Gardens scholarship to the annual conference on Landscaping with Native Plants. A wonderful evergreen shrub for sun to deep shade, eventually reaching 10' in height and spread. It is loaded with witch hazel-like fragrant blooms in early spring. Prefers acid, moist organic soils and has a pleasing natural form that needs little pruning. Loropetalum chinense var.