So much for ‘poor man’s box’, as people used to call this shrub. It has a close relation, Lonicera pileata, long undervalued as the carpeting of countless public car parks. It, too, is now enjoying a ...

I love them – but not all of them. An evergreen groundcover plant called Lonicera pileata doesn’t interest me at all. The same is true of L. nitida, also evergreen, but most often used for hedging; it ...