A golden jewel for your garden: Lonicera crass. ‘Little Honey’ - The creeping honeysuckle with extraordinary charm
The Lonicera crass. ‘Little Honey’, also known as creeping honeysuckle ‘Little Honey’, is a real asset to any garden. With its unique green to golden-yellow foliage and compact, creeping habit, it attracts everyone's attention and adds that certain something to your outdoor space. This extraordinary plant not only brings colour to your garden, but also offers a variety of benefits that make it the ideal choice for discerning garden lovers.
Bright colours all year round
‘Little Honey’ stands out with its eye-catching, bright green and partly yellow foliage, which retains its colour throughout the gardening season. In spring and summer, it creates lively accents in borders, beds or on the tops of walls. In autumn, the foliage takes on a reddish hue, providing warm tones in the garden even in the cooler months. This colourful splendour makes the creeping honeysuckle ‘Little Honey’ a real highlight that will set the scene in your garden all year round.
Easy to care for and versatile
Lonicera crass. ‘Little Honey’ is not only beautiful to look at, but also extremely easy to care for. This robust plant is adaptable and thrives in most garden soils as long as they are well-drained. Whether in sun or partial shade, ‘Little Honey’ feels at home in different light conditions and develops magnificently. Its creeping growth habit makes it particularly versatile; it is ideal as a ground cover, for planting on slopes or for greening walls and rock gardens.
Perfect planting partners for harmonious garden compositions
The creeping honeysuckle ‘Little Honey’ combines wonderfully with other plants to create a harmonious overall look. It goes particularly well with conifers, whose lush green colour provides a great contrast to the glossy leaves. Perennials such as lavender or sage, whose delicate purple flowers perfectly complement the golden tones of ‘Little Honey’, are also ideal partners. For an atmospheric autumn planting, it can be planted together with grasses such as the lamp plaster grass, whose filigree stems provide additional structure and movement in the garden.
A paradise for bees and butterflies
In addition to its beauty and versatility, ‘Little Honey’ also scores highly as a valuable source of nectar for bees and butterflies. The small, funnel-shaped flowers that appear in summer are rich in nectar and attract a variety of pollinators. By planting ‘Little Honey’, you are actively contributing to the preservation of biodiversity and at the same time creating a lively, buzzing oasis in your garden.
The ideal choice for near-natural gardens
If you value a near-natural garden, the Lonicera crass. ‘Little Honey’ is the perfect choice. Its robustness and adaptability make it the ideal plant for sustainable, low-maintenance garden concepts. Its dense growth suppresses weeds effectively, helping to stabilise the soil. At the same time, it blends harmoniously into existing plantings and supports the natural balance of your garden.
Transform your garden into a radiant paradise
The Lonicera crass. ‘Little Honey’ is more than just a plant - it is a real gem for your garden. With its glossy foliage, versatility and low-maintenance nature, it brings colour and texture to any outdoor space. Combined with the right planting partners, it creates a harmonious, lively garden landscape that will delight all year round. Turn your garden into a radiant paradise and choose the creeping honeysuckle ‘Little Honey’.
Our plants are grown in pots and can therefore be planted all year round.
