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Honeysuckle Training / Pruning
jonathanlcarpenter
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Just bought and planted a climbing evergreen honey suckle. We are hoping for it to grow up the fence and the arbour to the left of it. Since planting one shoot has just quickly grown. Just wondered how we best manage this plant and what do we need to do. Do we need to put some trellis or wire on the fence? Do we need to orune it to encourage growth or growing in the right places? What do we do with the fast growing shoot. We are real beginners so any help would be very much appreciated. When we bought it you can see it's been pruned and some trained horizontally and some vertically.
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I would put some wires across from the fence to the arbour and gently encourage some of the honeysuckle stems to find their way across ... you can tie them in with some soft garden twine to prevent the stems being bashed around in the winter wind, but in the spring and summer the growth will really take off and it'll start twining by itself ... no need to prune anything yet. Just make sure the roots don't dry out in the spring/summer and it'll be great
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.