This gorgeous honeysuckle is actually one of the most invasive plants in Texas and it can seriously damage trees
Q: There is a fence covered in honeysuckle at an old house in our neighborhood. The flowers start out white and then turn yellow the second day. It is extremely fragrant. Is that a good vine for our landscape?There are many types of honeysuckle out there in the world, and your description would fit several of them. However, the most common one here in Texas has green leaves and produces black fruit that birds love. It’s Hall’s honeysuckle.
Yes, it’s both native and tolerant of drought, but so is bermuda. And as soon as you decide that you’re going to water either one of those grasses during the heat of mid-summer, you’re giving the more dominant bermuda a giant head start. Many of us who thought buffalograss might become a real thing for Texas turf 30 years ago soon found out differently as we watched entire buffalograss lawns overtaken by the bermuda within just a couple of years.
The pupae overwinter in the soil, then emerge as moths in the spring. The moths have black wings over their backs, orange and black abdomens and three conspicuous black dots on their orange backs. Once they have mated, the females fly around the plants’ crowns. They lay their eggs on all plant parts except the outer leaves.
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