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Non flowering honeysuckle

greensallie00greensallie00 Posts: 11
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I have a honeysuckle lonicera similis delavayi - about 3-4 years old. Never flowered since originally planted. Each year it produces lots of leaves and lots of buds which seem as though they’re all set to blossom but instead the leaves drop and the whole plant looks sparse now, flowers never actually come to anything and wither away. The garden used to be really boggy so I assumed too wet, however since sorting out the drainage things haven’t improved. I’m tempted to dig it up and replace but it’s a shame. Any ideas?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Any chance of some photos of the plant and its surroundings please 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • greensallie00greensallie00 Posts: 11
    Yes will do
  • greensallie00greensallie00 Posts: 11
    It’s west facing!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It looks very unhappy. The roots are probably in a rain shadow by the fence. Try giving if a bucket gll oc water every other day between mid March and mid September. If you start watering now and give it a thick organic mulch, then start the watering again in March, you’ll have a whole new plant by this time next year 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • greensallie00greensallie00 Posts: 11
    definitely worth worth a try - previously thought it was unhappy with too much water but daily bucket full a good shout - hate to give up on it! Thanks 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2020
    You can’t really overwater honeysuckle ... in the wild they grow with their feet in ditches and damp woodlands. 

    Good luck and let us know how it does. 😊 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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