Has anyone any experience of making these as a globe like box?
I can obtain some at a very low price and as I like the leaves etc was wondering if they clip and can be kept in check, I have read they are very vigorous They will be in pots
They are very vigorous but a pot would hold them back. Probably need trimming more often than box. Box naturally makes quite a neat bush, the lonicera sprawls.
Not quite answering your question, but I know of a large garden open to the public which had a number of low box hedges around beds. The box succumbed to box blight and the hedges were replaced with Lonicera nitida. They were happily trimmed with both electric and hand clippers, although into straight edges, so don't see why they can't be made into ball shapes although they seemed to be more "open" than box.
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They are very vigorous but a pot would hold them back. Probably need trimming more often than box. Box naturally makes quite a neat bush, the lonicera sprawls.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Not quite answering your question, but I know of a large garden open to the public which had a number of low box hedges around beds. The box succumbed to box blight and the hedges were replaced with Lonicera nitida. They were happily trimmed with both electric and hand clippers, although into straight edges, so don't see why they can't be made into ball shapes although they seemed to be more "open" than box.
A "comical" shape or "conical" shape?
Comical please, I like a bit of humour in the garden
In the sticks near Peterborough
Sounds great fun!
I know someone who has a lonicera hedge that he keeps regularly trimmed and it is neat and tight and very like box but the leaves are smaller.