Lonicera Graham Thomas is an evergreen shrub named after prominent British horticulturist Graham Stuart Thomas. It is a large twining deciduous plant suitable for low walls, arches and trained along pergolas. This honeysuckle bears heavily scented creamy white flowers, fading to yellow as they mature.

Use Graham Thomas climber plant to cover walls in your cottage garden. Its flowers provide nectar and yield strong fragrance that attract bees, butterflies and ladybirds.

Welcome these new guests to your garden for they will find it a place of interest once your Graham Thomas blooms flowers. Do not forget the hungry birds that will find their way to your beautiful garden looking for the honeysuckles brilliant red berries in autumn.

It grows excellently in most soils but only the ones that are well-drained. Provide a good feed of mulch with compost during early spring months and watch your climber quickly grow as tall as 6 metres.

Lonicera Graham Thomas honeysuckle will invite some high degree of attention to your beautiful garden, particularly in the evening when the scent is quite strong.

Lonicera Graham Thomas

Lonicera periclymenum ‘Graham Thomas’ is a vigorous, twining deciduous honeysuckle prized for its very fragrant tubular flowers that open white and age to soft yellow, often followed by ornamental red berries. Ideal for covering walls, fences, arches or pergolas, it thrives in full sun or light shade and prefers moist but well-drained, moderately fertile soil. This climber requires a suitable support to establish and grow. A long-flowering selection that holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit, it typically reaches about 8m in height and around 1.5m in spread when mature, making a superb vertical feature that also supports visiting pollinators.

This climbing plant has been trained onto a supporting frame to create a neat, well-shaped specimen that is ready for planting. As it grows, new shoots can be guided and secured to continue developing its natural shape.

To help give a clear sense of scale, the stone wall shown in our photos measures approximately 265cm in height. We also use familiar garden tools as visual references: a digging fork (110cm tall) and a hand fork (30cm tall). These are included purely as size guides to help you better judge proportions when viewing the images.

Position: Full sun or light shade Rate of Growth: Vigorous Soil: Moist but well-drained, moderately fertile soil Hardiness: Fully hardy Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Plant at a Glance

light:sun
light:light-shade
facing:south
facing:west
facing:east
facing:north
soiltype:moderate-fertile
soilmoisture:normal
foliage:deciduous
leafcolour:green
flowering:july
flowering:august
flowering:september
flowercolour:white
flowercolour:yellow
size:5m+
wildlife:attractive-to-pollinators
fragrance:all-scented
gardenstyle:cottage-garden