DO NOT PLANT THAT SCENTED HONEYSUCKLE!!!!

Sure, it smells great, but it's invasive as all heck. You will be cursing yourself for planting it. Trust me!!

I grow many different native honeysuckles, and they don't have any scent but are beautiful and often boom straight thru the winter, non-stop.

Enjoy the scent of the asian (wild) honeysuckles while you are out walking. Enjoy the beautiful and long lasting flowers of native honeysuckles in your garden!!

GGG

Not if I can help it! (At least, not on purpose!) ;D

It is pretty invasive and can be difficult to eradicate. No problems with any snakes though - perhaps that is just in the particular patch you walk past?

Personally, I'd much rather have the snake! (As long as it is non-venomous and it dines on slugs, bugs, and/or small rodents!)

Mom

I feel like I have one or two years left before Japanese Honeysuckle completely swallows my house and strangles my family. At least we'll smell good when the carnage finally comes to an end!

I ordered what I was told was late blooming red honey suckle 3 years ago. Well it's not. It's the same as the stuff that grows freely in my backyard. Of course by the time it bloomed and I realized this it's all over the two trellises framing my dining room window. But it does smell divine right now.

After it blooms, DH chops it back with the hedge clipper.....

Listed as the third most invasive plant in the state, just behind Kudzu and Chinese Privet (you know the one!)

I love the smell, too. I had the windows open the other night going through a big stack of magazines getting ready to put them in the recycling bin. I smelled something so yummy, so I started trying to find the perfume card in the stack so I could know which perfume smelled so great. Then I realized that it was the smell of the honeysuckle and jasmine coming through my open window. It had a hint of freshly mown grass with a faint whiff of my roses & irises. Now... if someone could accurately bottle THAT they'd make a fortune!
Didn't know about the snakes, though. HMMM... I usually just wack it back with the the hedge clippers after the blooms die, but if it harbors snakes it might need to go. Still trying to get rid of that #$%^&$! kudzu!

I have Goldflame honeysuckle. It's not supposed to be invasive like the native stuff. This is just it's second year and so far it really hasn't been a problem. Do a search to get a look at a picture and more info.

Just have to comment on what amyta said. I think you are confusing "japanese honeysuckle" for a native plant. Japanese honeysuckle is the one that is white and yellow and climbs over everything in sight. It is the one that you see mile after mile on rural fences. It is absolutely not a native plant. You can call it naturalized if you want, but not native. The native one is coral or trumpet honeysuckle, it is red in color, and it has little to no fragrance.

Lonicera x heckrottii "Gold Flame" is a cultivar created from a cross between L. sempervirens (native) and L. americana (european).

Here is a link that might be useful: Lonicera sempervirens, the native honeysuckle

Scented honeysuckle is invasive Japanese honeysuckle..native honeysuckle has long tubular flowers and are a favorite of hummingbirds...like hummingbird crack, I grow Alabama Crimson.red, John Clayton.yellow., madi gras.pink.yellow.whitemixed, and mandarin orange.. Will spread to 10 by 10 ft on trellis or 12 ft either direction on chain link fence.... If you plant Japanese you will regret it.. A single leaf blown off in a storm will root and it winds around and chokes other plants....

So we live on a farm and the Japanese kind is all on the wooded edges which I don't mind. If I planed native like Major Wheeler or Alabama Crimson next to it, would the Japanese just kill it out?

Tim givemeenergy can you message me? I have a variegated and several other honeysuckles you don't have and would love to trade cuttings. I have never had snakes around them but I welcome the non poisonous ones.