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Honeysuckle or Clematis?
I've inherited an overgrown garden and am currently cutting back and digging it out ready for spring. My aunties say I have clematis and honeysuckle growing up my fence, both of which are overgrown and both flowered well last year. I pruned both today but actually don't know which is which. One of the plants (either honeysuckle or clematis) has buds on so I only tided this up and left it quite tall about 4.5 ft but the other plant (again either clematis or honeysuckle) was massively overgrown, was entwined over the fence etc and has a more grey, oldish stems and I've pruned this to abut 3.5 ft. Is there anyway I can tell which plant is which at this stage? Any help would be much appreciated.
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Post a picture if you can and we should be able to tell you. In my experience the honeysuckle stems are slightly thicker, clematis shoots are more 'stringy' if that makes sense.
Clematis and Honeysuckle can grow amongst each other nicely. I have two clematis growing amongst my honeysuckle on my garage..
Wow beautiful, i take it the lilac pinky flower is Clematis? I am very keen learner, off to buy clematis this week, is there diff types? As i loove this one?
Christine, yes that clematisis the pink flowering plant and is called 'Piilu'. Heres a close up..(click on it to enlarge)
Its my second favourite clematis, my first being Dr Ruppel which you can see here growing up my archway..
Have a look at this great website about Clematis plants http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk
Clematis fall into different groups which relate to their pruning times - Group 1, Group 2 etc. You can also get evergreen Clematis.
Ohh love Dr Ruppel, i am off to look at the site you sent me, get better idea of what to get, thank you, loving your garden xx
Theres thousands of them lol.
Leadfarmer - your garden looks fabulous!
I bought Dr Ruppel last year because LeadFarmer posted a picture of it. I'm very pleased with it.