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honeysuckle

willinglearnerwillinglearner Posts: 54
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I have a honeysuckle quite happily climbing up a frame. It's getting to the top now so can I pinch the tips to stop it?
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  • clematisdorsetclematisdorset Posts: 1,348
    Has it been flowering at all this year, and if so, what colour/s is it. Or a photo if you have one. There are so many different varieties. 
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  • willinglearnerwillinglearner Posts: 54
    Oh! should it have been flowering? Plenty of growth but no flowers. Yet?
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Not necessarily, it depends on which type it is. Can you post a photo or two? 
  • willinglearnerwillinglearner Posts: 54
    Slow, do you mean, when it has flowered?
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    If you have a photo with flowers from last year. But leaves, buds, stems will do.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    A photo now will help.
    They're best suited to scrambling over sheds/garages etc or through hedges etc, rather than up a support. Most of them become, or want to become, very large rambling plants  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • willinglearnerwillinglearner Posts: 54
    as requested photo of pre blooming honeysuckle
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Can we see a photo of the whole plant climbing the frame please?  those are new immature shoots looking for something to climb. 

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





  • willinglearnerwillinglearner Posts: 54
    this is the plant climbing up some 8ft canes and netting
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It's nice and healthy, which is good, but unfortunately, as I mentioned earlier, most of them are very, very big plants, which is why they're so good for covering small buildings.
    It needs some substantial supports at each side to cling to if you can't let it get any higher. Then it can grow sideways rather than upwards :)
    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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