Grow Honeysuckle for Free

Honeysuckle has got to be the best plant ever. It has an intoxicating fragrance. It has lovely honeysuckle blooms. It attracts hummingbirds. It's easy to grow.

And you can get honeysuckle for free.

That's right, no need to step in a nursery, as long as you can find an overgrown bush somewhere.

The secret is that honeysuckle grows marvelously from a single clipping.

Lots of places have honeysuckle growing in overwhelming abundance. Many parks and even deserted lots will have fragrant honeysuckle vines climbing up fences.

All you have to do is break off the end of a honeysuckle branch (Just a couple inches will do). Of course, don't pick your neighbor's honeysuckle. That wouldn't be nice. But I've seen honeysuckle growing in enough abandoned places. If you search, you can probably find some.

Take the honeysuckle branch home and place it in a vase full of water. Leave it in a bright place in your house, changing the water every couple of days. Before long, you'll see roots growing out of the end of the honeysuckle!

Leave it a couple more days for the honeysuckle roots to fully grow out. Don't worry, the honeysuckle won't die, as long as you give it clean water and a decent amount of light. Amazing, isn't it?

Eventually, you can transplant your honeysuckle plant outside. Find a place with rich soil and plenty of sunlight. Also, make sure the location has a fence, pole, or other support for the honeysuckle to climb as it grows.

Just like any other transplanted plant, the new honeysuckle plant will need you to water it every day until it establishes itself. Fortunately, it's a pretty hardy plant and doesn't need a whole lot of care. Pretty soon, the honeysuckle will start growing, winding itself up the fence or pole.

Now, all you have to do is sit back and enjoy. With luck, by next summer you'll have gorgeous honeysuckle blooms, with all the wonderful fragrance. The best thing about honeysuckle is it will get bigger and bigger with each passing year. Eventually, you'll have a great big bush of honeysuckle blooms.

Then, if you want any more honeysuckle plants, you can just snip a twig off your established honeysuckle bush, put the twig in a vase of water, and make another honeysuckle plant.

It's rare that an amazingly beautiful flower is also hardy and easy to take care of. But that is the case with honeysuckle.