In this photograph it is harmonising in colour but contrasting beautifully in shape with one of the two clipped forms I have. Lonicera nitida is a straggly thing left to its own devices with branches going at odd angles every which way. The other clipped plant I have is a box, cut in an oval rather than a ball. These shapes act like full stops in the froth and flow of the summer garden, and provide bold shapes in the winter. Clipping them is a rather soothing operation, done when the notion takes me, two, maybe three times a year....