By Alison Kerr
Honey bee on honeyvine
“A weed by any other name would smell more sweet.”
I step outside the back door and immediately grow heady on the intoxicating perfume of honeyvine.
Bees, butterflies, iridescent flies, and jaw-droppingly giant wasps float in and out of my garden nectaring on this sweet feast.
Of all the flowers in my garden these are the ones the insects love most. So, is honeyvine, usually called a weed, really a native plant treasure?
What is honeyvine?
If you have honeyvine in your garden you probably know it. At the start of summer honeyvine appears.
At first you’ll see slim, delicate, curling stems with little heart-shaped leaves, in pairs, on opposite sides of the... More...
