Description

Valued for its very showy white flowers in spring and tiny gold variegated leaves; the fruit is purple and inedible and rarely forms when clipped regularly; makes a fantastic hedge; sometimes confused with cotoneaster

Landscape Attributes

Baggesen's Gold Box Honeysuckle is a dense multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a shapely form and gracefully arching branches. It lends an extremely fine and delicate texture to the landscape composition which can make it a great accent feature on this basis alone.

Baggesen's Gold Box Honeysuckle is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Planting & Growing

Baggesen's Gold Box Honeysuckle will grow to be about 5 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 5 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years.

This shrub does best in full sun to partial shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type, but has a definite preference for alkaline soils. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.