Honeysuckle

[Equiem89]

I asked the advice of someone of what to plant next to a pole in the garden and they suggested a honeysuckle. So I went out and bought one and did as it said on the label and planted 40cm from the post. It's now long enough to trail round the post but it looks rubbish. Have attached a picture. What am I doing wrong?

Mould not mound

Might be some sort of insect damage, mould is usually thicker. I am Essex too and have that sort of thing on my plants. You could try spraying with something like Bugclear but I don't think it is essential. Also the rain has washed a lot of nutrients out of the soil, so a foliar feed might help. Just be careful to not be tempted to make a stronger solution than the instructions. I use an old spray bottle to squirt all over the leaves.

Also the purple to brown change on the honeysuckle is as the plant is maturing.

Oh really? I thought it was dying! Thank you!
I will go to a garden centre on my lunch break today and for some spray and some nutrient stuff for the soil.

plants lose leaves all the time. it looks fine. moving is stressful, even for a plant. it needs to get used to the new location and then it should take off.

Don't treat and feed at the same time. I don't think it looks bad enough for treatment. I would go with the feeding option for now. You can cut off the infected and the yellowing leaves, but not essential. Do pick any up that have fallen on the soil though to keep it healthy.

If you have any compost left from when you planted you could put that around the base. The compost will have some nutrients and this will also provide a mulch around the base. I think the other problem is that, the heavy rain has compacted the soil which is stifling the smaller roots of the plant. Nothing you can do about that, but nature will put that right.

I cleaned up the leaves earlier and put some more compost down :)