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Honeysuckle losing leaves
Adam Bardoe
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I planted my honeysuckle last autumn and has grown well this year, however the leaves are now yellowing and falling off, it is regularly watered and recently fed with chicken manure. Does anyone have any tips of what to do?
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There also seems to be 2 different varieties of leaf on the same plant?
The different shapes of leaf are normal for the plant
Are you watering it now? Nothing needs watering now, there's no way the soil could be dry. Watering and feeding before growth starts is too much for a plant to deal with
I can see a droopy shoot, suggests drowning to me. I'd leave it alone and let it recover
In the sticks near Peterborough
I think it might be to do with the mild winter. Normally the leaves would have fallen in Autumn and you'd have thought nothing of it, but it's been so mild, they've hung onto the leaves, and now the new leaves are coming through, the old ones are falling off. I'd not worry.
Hi, I haven't watered in a while due to the weather but have just recently fed it, the first time since planting it back in the autumn, it has grown considerably (doubled in size) so thought it might need it?
Hostafan1 thanks for your comment, my concern is that it is listed as an evergreen and decides now to shed its leaves after a decent period of growth, do you think it will flower this year?
All 'evergreen' plants lose their leaves, it's just that we rarely notice. I think Hostafan's analysis is very likely spot-on and there's nothing to worry about.
Thanks very much all, was just worried that it was diseased. Do you think it will recover and flower this season?
"No way soil could be dry".... try Norfolk. Whilst mowing the grass in Feb, I stared in disbelief at some cracked clay soil. Poor souls elsewhere are flooded and I'm mowing and watering. (Only the new stuff though - wouldn't water the established stuff.)
That's pretty amazing for a clay soil supernoodle. I'm only just up the road (Cambs). The only dry bit heer is under a willow where theres more dust and rubbish than soil.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Perhaps it just reflects the amount of work I haven't put into that bit yet. The cracked bit wasn't planted up. Ive had various ground works going on- footings for garage etc. I'm hoping all it is is that we've pulled some subsoil up.
Still it'sbeen dry enough to mow and dry for new planting on banks / under trees. It highlights the bonkers - ness of British the weather and I feel so fortunate compared to much of the country.