Can this honeysuckle be saved?

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I bought it online about a month ago and it looked healthy when it arrived. I put it in a bigger pot and made sure the leaves were in sun and the roots shaded like it said. But it's now covered in mildew and doesn't appear to have grown at all, just looks a bit shrivelled and sad. Is there any hope for it or have I killed it?

Following, as that's what my honeysuckle looks like!!

Mine were like that 6 years and now cover a fence. Lots of water and a spoonful of tomatorite or whatever it is called (the stuff to nuture tomatoes!)

As it's small, you could wipe off the mildew, remove any dead/dying leaves and dead branches. Make sure you remove any dead leaves from the pot and clean the cane etc to get rid of any spores. Either spray it with a commercial spray to get rid of the mildew or you could try 60%/40% milk and water and keep using milk and water as a preventative spray (it doesn't harm insects but it is antibacterial/fungal).

Thank you. I've tried to wipe the leaves but they're really brittle and snap off, which doesn't look positive. But there are a couple of tiny green shoots on the stem so I don't think it's completely dead.

It doesn't like being in a pot. put it in the ground and it'll probably recover.

It would prefer being in the ground if that's possible. On the other hand, I have huge honeysuckles (3m x 2m) growing in window boxes on a balcony so it is possible to grow them in pots with the right care.

If the leaves are dry and drop off when you wipe them, then they were dying anyway so get rid of them. Spray the new shoots with milk to stop the mildew infecting them.

Are you over/under watering/feeding it?

Put it in the ground and cut the tendrils down so it can focus on root growth and then new shoots. Water sufficiently.

Underwatering predisposes a plant to mildew. The reason honeysuckle likes its roots in the shade is that it likes them to be in damp soil. It's not the lack of light that they're after, it's the moisture level that goes with the lack of direct sunshine.