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Post by 4pygmies on Mar 22, 2007 23:22:07 GMT 1
I spent an energetic half an hour hacking back my monster honeysuckle this evening...it's horrendous. I thought I'd beaten last Autumn as I hacked off all the stems at the base but it doesn't appear to have stopped growing all winter and has once again swallowed my lovely Fruhingsgold Rose bush - not only covered it but twined its little stems all aound it and actually started to drag it sideways. It is a Belgica and very pretty and fragrant but, omg, only plant one if you a) have time to keep it trimmed regularly and b) have a space of about 3 miles so it can romp away....I haven't even looked at the growth on the other side of the wall. Last year it swallowed a Weigela, a Wayfaring tree, and a Purple Smoke Tree on that side.......
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Post by sweetleaf on Mar 22, 2007 23:29:27 GMT 1
My neighbours honeysuckle is breaking through the fence and coming through my golden Box hedge, I have to chop it back when I see it, but its sneaky, one day Ill lose. The leaves of her honeysuckle look purple/bronze is this normal? Looks strange to me.....  |
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Post by 4pygmies on Mar 22, 2007 23:37:37 GMT 1
That's the one I've got. It's actually a very pretty plant but just too thuggish... Lonicera periclymenum Belgica is its proper name been trying to spell it right! Still not sure....
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Post by maggyd on Mar 23, 2007 0:10:07 GMT 1
I must have the weakest specimen of honeysuckle you could find!! its in a sunny position but at the other side of the fence is a big leylandi. I think I get about two blossoms on it I was thinking of digging it out should I be doing anything special do you think? special feed etc;
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Post by 4pygmies on Mar 23, 2007 7:51:19 GMT 1
I think a big dollop of muck might help, Maggyd. Leylandiis do tend to suck all the goodness up for themselves. I planted mine about 12 years ago and have never fed it but it is sited where the farmer had a big pile of muck that came straight out of my barn when the cows were in it! A bag of horse muck would be good too. Mine is very beautiful when in flower and is often the first plant with new growth in early Spring, it's right by my back door so it is nice to see but I wish it would'nt eat all my other plants!
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Post by The witch on Mar 23, 2007 8:35:13 GMT 1
I must have the weakest specimen of honeysuckle you could find!! its in a sunny position but at the other side of the fence is a big leylandi. I think I get about two blossoms on it I was thinking of digging it out should I be doing anything special do you think? special feed etc; Honeysuckles are like Clematis - they like their feet in the shade and their heads in the sun. I have one growing up a supporting cable for a telegraph pole in our very sunny front garden, it wasn't in the least bit happy - but has improved greatly since I put a load of cobbles around the base of it.  |
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 23, 2007 11:02:22 GMT 1
I kill honeysuckle..I just can't seem to grow it without it getting poorly...it's odd because I can grow other climbers with no problem.
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Post by 4pygmies on Mar 23, 2007 15:15:46 GMT 1
I bet you can't kill my monster one! You should see how I hack at it every few months....I am crueller to that plant than any other but nothing stops it.
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Post by plocket on Mar 23, 2007 19:26:05 GMT 1
I've got a winterflowering one which I'm going to bung outside the garden wall.
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Post by sweetleaf on Mar 23, 2007 19:28:52 GMT 1
I could let next doors honeysuckle in, but I have a feeling I`d never get it to leave , best keep hacking it then!
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Post by maggyd on Mar 23, 2007 21:55:53 GMT 1
I went down the garden to inspect it to-day it might be my imagination but it looks as if it has grown I did cut the straggly weak bits of at the back end when I pruned a rose that is beside it. I will do as I think The witch said and put pebbles round the base. I turned all the back border back about 3 weeks ago and emptied a barrow load of compost out of my bin that might do the trick and I might just do what I used to do when I was little. My Dad used to come home from his shift in ICI and tell me that I had to go up the street with my bucket and shovel as the Ringtons Tea horse or the stick mans horse had deposited a heap I thought it was such an important job he was giving me, and I would deposit it round his roses! : I know what my daughter would have said if her Dad had told her to do the same.!!!!  ;D |
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Post by dasiygirl on Apr 9, 2007 21:30:04 GMT 1
Definitely beware honeysuckles anywhere near water / sewage pipes. In my last house the roots forced themselves into the sewage pipes (they were the older clay pipes), and over a period of time blocked them so that the toilet overflowed and cost me a fortune to fix. I now grow mine well away from any pipes especially as my older house is bound to have clay pipes!
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Post by Sleepy on Apr 9, 2007 21:37:29 GMT 1
Hi'ya Daisygirl. Good to have you on-board |
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