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What is it and why won't it climb?

dave125dave125 Posts: 178
in Problem solving

I was told it was a Honeysuckle. I tied it into this position and here it has stayed for two years without growing hardly an inch. The third position I have tried it in and this is the best result. It never flowers, just basically sits there winding me right up. Mostly sun by the way and that's the remains of Allium, His Excellency in the front. Now he was five quid well spent!
Luv from Dave

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  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    Honeysuckle are hungry plants.........it looks as if your is in a pot, and had to share whatever nutrients in the potting medium with the allium.  I would say it's not being nourished enough to put on good new growth.  
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    It looks more like it could be the shrubby, winter-flowering honeysuckle. The flowers are tiny, white and appear in winter (obvs!).
    They are very sweet scented but mine has never had more than a handful of flowers and any scent gets blown away. I think it needs a sunny spot to perform well, but it is rather uninspiring the rest of the year so doesn't really merit a prime position!
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    edited July 2018
    Told by whom?  Did they tell you what variety it is?  The plants commonly called honeysuckle belong to the genus Lonicera, and not all of them are climbers.  This is why plants have scientific names, so we can ensure we're talking about the same one.  I've just noticed it's in a pot, it might do better in the ground.

    I planted my honeysuckle three years ago and it grew quite slowly, but this year it's suddenly romping away and has reached the top of the trellis.  
  • dave125dave125 Posts: 178
    Thanks guys, the pot is the first pot it's been in and as mentioned this is the best it's done. I feed everything twice a week with miraclegro and everything else thrives on it. Perhaps as mentioned it's just not a climber. A pot in a similar place has a different cultivar of Honeysuckle which has grown over five feet this year already. Sorry I don't know the scientific name of that one either.
    Luv from Dave
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