Digging up my old topic here, but I found the lonicera periclymenum cultivar "Rhubarb and Custard" that grows to almost exactly the size I'm planning my hedge to be, so it gentler to the young hedge. Hopefully by the time the economy shipping arrives the soil will have thawed out!
Thanks for bringing this back up @trantion, as I had a similar desire to put an evergreen climber through a hedge.
Does anyone have experience of growing climbers up a conifer which has been cut back into brown wood?
Neighbour's conifer hedge comes over the boundary and it is inconvenient to keep trimming so I wanted to cut it right back into brown wood on my side, then grow an evergreen climber up, possible passion flower (for full sun area) and lonicera halliana (for the shaded bits). It's several meters long and 2.5m high. A very small section already has c.montana but it's bare and ugly in winter.
Some of the farmers fields around here have hawthorn hedges with the odd bit of elder, and also old mans beard growing through and honeysuckle. They all get trimmed in winter to a level, but all still seem to flower the following summer.
Am I right in thinking that honeysuckles need full sun to do well? I have always found it so. They will survive, but won't flower profusely without sun.
Am I right in thinking that honeysuckles need full sun to do well? I have always found it so. They will survive, but won't flower profusely without sun.
I have one in a different shady spot, which will eventually get sun when it reaches the top of the fence, but it was only planted last year so I could move it to the sunny part and choose a different climber. The lack of sun might explain it's lack of vigour. Not super bothered about flowering, just want a screen.
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