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Propagating Honeysuckle - help please!

Rob LockwoodRob Lockwood Posts: 380
edited April 2023 in Plants
Evenin' all - further to the forum's kind ID of this as a honeysuckle, my next question is how to get it over to the place I need it!  In order to get a plant going as quickly and as strongly as possible so it can cover a fence, do I:
a) layer a section into soil, attached to the mother plant
b) cut a section surrounding one of the little florets and plant it as a cutting
c) chop a 3-ft section off and treat that as a cutting to see if it can retain some of the vigour of the mother plant (probably not :) )
d) just buy one from a GC with inbuilt vigour from having someone who knows what they're doing shepherd it through its first few years?
This section's attached to a very mature plant with about 4-5ft of bare stem before you get to the leaves below.
Many thanks!

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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Long term it will break a fence panel. However you have the added problem of a newly planted Honeysuckle will need to settle it's roots in order to climb. Sadly no quick fixes with any climber.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Rob LockwoodRob Lockwood Posts: 380
    edited April 2023
    Thanks @GardenerSuze - which of the above will get me a head start do you think?
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I would vote for a new plant myself, unless you're happy to wait a few years for your cuttings (which you'd take in July or August) to reach a reasonable size.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited April 2023
    It is all about the roots so a large potted plant would be best as @Liriodendron has said
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    1,  d
    2,  a.  But depends how far away your new site is.
    3,  b
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • Rob LockwoodRob Lockwood Posts: 380
    Thanks all!
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    You can use the material for cuttings, as @Liriodendron says, but it's the wrong time of year. They're very easy, but it'll be a while for it to be a big plant, so better to buy another in the meantime.  :)
    I took some last summer and they're all growing well, and were recently re potted. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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