“Botanical name: Cape honeysuckle. A fast growing, scrambling, multi-stemmed shrub which may grow up to 2-3 m high and spread more than 2.5 m. It is an evergreen plant in warm regions but loses its leaves in colder ones. Flowers are tubular in showy many-flowered heads and vary in colour from red, deep orange, yellow to salmon. It has pinnately compound, glossy leaves that have oval leaflets with blunt teeth. Flowering time for this shrub is very erratic and it often flowers all year round.”