Warwickshire

Honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum)

Honeysuckle is Shakespeare's ‘woodbine'. In A Midsummer Night's Dream , Puck knew a secluded bank ‘quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine'. It was a fit place for a love-tryst with the woodbine's heady scent and suggestive twining growth. And, of course, it was in Warwickshire.

Habitat: woods and hedgerows. Flowers: June-September.

Image © Andrew N Gagg's PHOTOFLORA