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| Gloria Bonde |
Posted - Jun 13 2010 : 06:02:45 AM
Hi I just did a post showing my currently blooming honeysuckle and mentioned sucking the honey from the back of the flower. Some had never heard of doing that or tried it. How about you?
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| sissarge |
Posted - Jun 15 2010 : 7:52:30 PM
Yep, I sucked the honeysuckle when I was 7 it sure was good, but I broke out in a rash and was sick for over a week. Mouth swelled up and of course if was summertime and hot so I had to stay in. Now I am almost 60 and showed my twin granddaughters how to do it, It grows wild in the woods, In Texas we consider it a parasite, because if not controlled it takes over. By the way, girls did not break out and neither did I, and it is still sweet. lol.
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| Gloria Bonde |
Posted - Jun 15 2010 : 7:41:35 PM
Laurentany - I love it " Natures Free Candy" - so true and the nectar is really sweet.
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| laurentany |
Posted - Jun 15 2010 : 6:50:57 PM
I grew up on and still live on Long Island and we used to do that all the time when we were kids! Natures Free Candy!!! Yum!
Thanks for sharing!
Smiles,
Laurie
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| hcrose |
Posted - Jun 15 2010 : 10:17:42 AM
Childhood memories in Iowa, we used to suck out the sweet honeysuckle nectar, yummy! Honeysuckle scent always brings me sweet memories. |
| Gloria Bonde |
Posted - Jun 14 2010 : 12:54:01 PM
Melody, how odd that your honeysuckle is so big and doesn't bloom. Is it a vine or shrub? Is it in the sun? Sometimes honeysuckle shrubs get what is called "witches broom" the ends of the branches will look bedraggled like a broom. It is called my aphids that eat up at the ends of the shrub.
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| melody |
Posted - Jun 13 2010 : 07:02:28 AM
My nephew showed me the secret!
Any advice on growing honeysuckle? I have had a plant in a corner by my front porch for about 10-years and it has a nice thick trunk but barely blooms each spring.
Melody
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| bobbinrobin |
Posted - Jun 13 2010 : 06:10:37 AM
That brings back childhood memories of my experiences in the woods of northern Minnesota. Thanx for that.
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