What a beautiful pink wheelbarrow. I heard about it on another thread, never seen one like that. Jealous!
Sorry, don't know about the honeysuckle, perhaps it's still to young, perhaps it's so happy and healthy it doesn't see the point of making flowers. (Which are for reproduction, after all.)
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I have one flower on one of my winter flowering honeysuckles this year, a few buds to come on one, nothing on the other. Previous years there have been lots. The weather again?
I think it might still flower a bit later in the winter/earlier in the spring, but if it doesn't I'd cut it back in late March and then in the summer give it a dose of rose fertiliser - that ought to remind it what it's here for
Yet another plant I need to find room for in this new garden
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Basing plant care on the 1st year sleep, 2nd year creep, 3rd year leap I have left it alone. I will leave it and give it some feed in spring. Was really asking to see what to do later.
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What a beautiful pink wheelbarrow. I heard about it on another thread, never seen one like that. Jealous!
Sorry, don't know about the honeysuckle, perhaps it's still to young, perhaps it's so happy and healthy it doesn't see the point of making flowers. (Which are for reproduction, after all.)
I have one flower on one of my winter flowering honeysuckles this year, a few buds to come on one, nothing on the other. Previous years there have been lots. The weather again?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Does everybody think pruning back is the answer to shy flowering?
I think it might still flower a bit later in the winter/earlier in the spring, but if it doesn't I'd cut it back in late March and then in the summer give it a dose of rose fertiliser - that ought to remind it what it's here for
Yet another plant I need to find room for in this new garden
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
BJay- it looks a gorgeous plant. Book says prune after flowering,
typical, but doesnt say whether it flowers on old or new wood.
Flowering can be up to/including March apparently, so I'd leave any tidy up until then.
If it flowers on old wood, did you prune it last yr, to 'tidy' up & thus remove the chance of any flowers this yr?
I'd certainly feed it after any pruning too. J.
Basing plant care on the 1st year sleep, 2nd year creep, 3rd year leap I have left it alone. I will leave it and give it some feed in spring. Was really asking to see what to do later.
Never heard that 1-3yr senario before Bjay, but like the idea.
I suppose as long as it looks healthy & isnt causing you too much trouble by looking untidy, then giving it another chance worth it. J.
Jo, it flowers on wood produced in the previous season (old wood) so the sooner it is pruned after flowering the better
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Right, so if Bjay did a tidy up she could have removed the potential flowering wood. Did you do a tidy up Bjay? J.
NO - left well alone to mature.
That 3 year 'plan' seems to work for shrubs and roses especially as I plant young plants - cheaper
the honeysuckle certainly leapt last year (3rd year)