Honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum) is common in woods and hedgerows throughout Britain and on a warm summer evening like this evening, its scent is very strong and particularly attractive to pollinating moths. Its colour varies with the unopened flowers being a pale pink, changing to a creamish white when they open, then a pale yellow after being pollinated like those at the bottom of the photo and then eventually they become red berries. I can never resist passing by without picking a few individual newly opened flowers and biting off the end to suck the honey.. It was once believed to bring good luck and stop evil spirits from entering if it was planted beside the house door and wreaths containing honeysuckle would be hung in the cattle byres. As far back as the Bronze Ages the twining stems were used as ropes and the thick stems used as walking sticks
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