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Gloria Bonde
True Blue Farmgirl
103 Posts
Gloria
Hot Springs
SD
USA
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 Posted - Jun 13 2010 : 06:02:45 AM
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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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bobbinrobin
True Blue Farmgirl
590 Posts
Sharon
Newman Lake
WA
USA
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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
3335 Posts
Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
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Gloria Bonde
True Blue Farmgirl
103 Posts
Gloria
Hot Springs
SD
USA
103 Posts |
Posted - Jun 14 2010 : 12:54:01 PM
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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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hcrose
Farmgirl at Heart
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val
TX
USA
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Posted - Jun 15 2010 : 10:17:42 AM
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| Childhood memories in Iowa, we used to suck out the sweet honeysuckle nectar, yummy! Honeysuckle scent always brings me sweet memories. |
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laurentany
True Blue Farmgirl
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Laurie
Patchogue
NY
USA
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Posted - Jun 15 2010 : 6:50:57 PM
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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
Farmgirl Sister#1403
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.. |
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Gloria Bonde
True Blue Farmgirl
103 Posts
Gloria
Hot Springs
SD
USA
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Posted - Jun 15 2010 : 7:41:35 PM
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Laurentany - I love it " Natures Free Candy" - so true and the nectar is really sweet.
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sissarge
True Blue Farmgirl
502 Posts
Linda
Montgomery
Texas
USA
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Posted - Jun 15 2010 : 7:52:30 PM
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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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