Common Honeysuckle

Lonicera periclymenum, European honeysuckle, is a twining deciduous climber native to the UK and Europe north to Scandinavia, reaching ten to twenty feet. Dark green leaves carry a pale vein down the centre, and whorled clusters of long tubular flowers in cream, yellow and pink open through summer, followed by deep red berries in September. The scent is the point and it is strongest at dusk, when the flowers are worked by long-tongued moths rather than bees — which is why it is worth planting near a door or seating area used in the evening. Unlike the invasive Japanese honeysuckle it is well behaved in North American gardens, though it is not native here.