This honeysuckle shrub really is special it is related to the common honeysuckle but lonicera x purpusii 39winter beauty39 is in a league of its own it brings winter scent and colour to a garden as the hardy deciduous shrub is adorned with highly fragranced small blooms at a time when little else is flowering the creamy45white 15mm blooms appear in sprays as soon as the leaves fall and they last for many weeks height 2m 4063973441 spread 25m 4083923441