Thread: Honeysuckle ID
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Old 23-05-2010, 05:22 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Dave Poole Dave Poole is offline
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On May 23, 4:50*pm, "Jeff Layman" wrote:
"Dave Poole" wrote in message

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The leaves are rather more oblong than the typically elliptic L.
tartarica, but the flower colour and other floral characters are
nearly right for the cultivar 'Hacks Red'. *If you call it tartarica
you won't be wrong,


Sorry, Dave, but I can't resist it! * You will be wrong because it's
"tatarica", not "tartarica"...

--

Jeff


Realised as soon as I pressed the send button - had been watching Rick
Stein making tartar sauce earlier and it got muxed up. Damn this
newsgroup malarkey for not being able to edit!