Honeysuckle or Kamperfuli which is also known with its scientific name Lonicera japonica is a plant native in East Asia. It can be commonly found in Japan and China region.Honeysuckle is pretty popular among gardeners as it provides various benefits and also gives a unique and enchanting look to their garden. In this article, we will dig deeper into this plant and why planting it can be a very wise decision.

The Benefits you can get from planting Lonicera Japonica or Honeysuckle

  1. Can act as a decorative plant for fences
    As a vine type plant, Honeysuckle can make an ideal plant to cover your fences or even wall. Due to its lush nature when properly grown it will make an ideal living fence and also ground cover. Additionally, the beautiful structure this plant has to offer will also give your fences or walls where it grows a unique look and charming visuals.

  2. Beautiful Flower with sweet and refreshing aroma
    Not only Lonicera Japonica offers a beautiful texture, it also offers a lovely and beautiful flower as well. This plant will grow and sprout tubular-shaped flowers that have yellow and white color. Additionally, the flower comes with sweet and also refreshing fragrant. Honeysuckle itself is well known to be used as an ingredient for perfume therefore, planting this type of plant will not only make your garden look aesthetically pleasing but also give it a satisfying fragrance around it.

  3. Easy to care and resilient
    Despite its look, Lonicera Japonica offers a high resilience from diseases and pests. To make things even better this plant can survive in different types of conditions as well as climate. Therefore, this type of plant can be planted in many types of soils without having to go for further care. Due to these benefits, this plant is a good plant for beginners especially because it does not require excessive and complicated maintenance for it to grow properly.

  4. Beneficial for the ecosystem
    Honeysuckle or Lonicera Japonica is a kind of plant that can attract different types of small animals such as insects. This is pretty beneficial especially for your garden as it will make sure that the garden will have a balanced ecosystem which also makes it self sustainable in some ways.

  5. Natural Weed Control
    Gardeners often plant Lonicera Japonica as a way to control weed. Weed as we know has been a problem for gardeners, therefore planting this plant into your garden will help to control the growth of weed as this plant will inhibit the growth of the other annoying weeds.

  6. Provide Culinary and Medical Benefits
    Last but not least, Lonicera Japonica can be used as medical ingredients as well as culinary ingredients. Due to their high antioxidant properties, their flower specifically can also be used to make herbal and tea drinks which is beneficial for our body.

And there you go, several benefits that Lonicera Japonica can offer to your garden. With all of these benefits we can assure you planting this type of plant for your garden is definitely a wise decision indeed.