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Honeysuckle help needed!
Can anyone give me some advice, please? I had a metal archway in my garden that has 2 honeysuckle growing up it .......I say 'had' & 'has' cos the arch was rusting away and finally died in the high winds but the plants are still attached to it. They were quite top heavy plants
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sorry.....suddenly stopped letting me write anything.......as I was about to say ........they are lying flat on the ground at the moment, thit had v little growth lower down, it's all up top. Also, it's started budding already. Sadly the label seems to have rotted so I have no idea whthe they are.
Don't panic - honeysuckle is something of a thug, so just cut back to a bud, or even down to the ground and it should sprout up vigorously, even if you don't want it to!
Good luck - and leave the berries on in the autumn for the birds.
I agree with gardenning granny
I'd cut them right back, even to about 12 - 18 inches from the ground - are you going to get another arch for them?
Show us some photos when they flower and we'll have a go at identifying them for you
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I agree with gg.Cut them back and let them grow to their new supports. They'll never look right otherwise
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thank you all! Very prompt replies!! I'm so scared of cutting them back hard.......I have a weird thing where stuff grows amazingly for me.........or just gives up. I know it's what I have to do though.......I shall hold my breath and just do it. Altho', all the buds seem to be at the top.......what if there are no buds lower down?
i did leave the berries on, gardening granny........there were loads last year! Hope the birds enjoyed them.
yes, dovefromabove, I was going to get another arch but I'm unsure if I can find one I can afford. Also, I put the arch in the wrong place really........it shades my 'floor' hammock in the afternoon. Anyone got any ideas for what I can do?
If you cut them back you would have more growth lower down, it wouldn't all be at the top.
Hmmmm! That's an idea, verdin, thanks! Tho' I'd need 4 rods cos it arches over an entrance to another part of the garden.........suppose I could find a new entry?! How would I take cuttings! I have tried before but with no success. I'm a pretty rubbish gardener........I'm the only human who got 3 courgettes from 7 plants........oh, and whose Jerusalem artichokes 'disappeared' after getting to 2' high (I've been told that once you have them they're there for life!)
You may well find that you have seedlings coming up if you allowed the berries to fall!
and you're not the only one whose "rampant" plants fizzle out, I only got 2 courgettes off a dozen plants when all my friends were complaining of huge harvests - on the other hand I had abundant tomatoes from self-saved seed where others did not do so well - swings and roundabouts - and loads of enthusiasm.