Cutting a honeysuckle away from a trellis

[oliveroses]

Hello, we are moving soon and have a lovely honeysuckle which is from our previous home, it's travelled with us in a pot for years. In this house it has a large trellis and has really come into its own, flowering for the first time.
We want to take it with us but need to cut it off the trellis, either this weekend or next. Any tips? It is still flowering and is quite vigorous, though really quite woody now underneath. It has been in situ now for 5 years.
No idea what we are doing, I was planning on working from the trellis itself and just snipping individual tendrils ...
Should we feed it afterwards?

I was planning on working from the trellis itself and just snipping individual tendrils Honeysuckle doesn't have tendrils, it's the stems that wind round the trellis. I'd be inclined to cut the trellis out of the honeysuckle rather than the other way round.

Then I'd take the opportunity to spread the honeysuckle our, and prune out old and manky stems.

Yes I agree with Mere Also look underneath the pot to cut any roots that have got into the earth, they'll need trimming. Yes definitely feed if you haven't for a while .
Honeysuckles are tough plants it'll be fine.

Thank you both, really appreciate the advice!

They are very tough plants. I’d cut the stem at the point it reaches the trellis. Sounds drastic, but Honeysuckle responds well to drastic pruning, it will then send up new shoots from the base. After you’ve moved repot it with lots of lovely new compost and it will thrive.

Thank you! Just working up the courage to go in there with the secateurs...

I’d also remove the trellis and not the honey suckle.

I have a honeysuckle at the end of the garden which was growing into a tree which I needed to remove (the tree was being removed I mean). I cut the honeysuckle at the point it entered the tree, which wasn't very high. It has bounced back no problems and is a good thick 'hedge' again through the fence that was left - took a few months to recover but it's really romping away now.

I have a honeysuckle growing in a pot up a trellis. When the garden flash flooded during the storm at the end of August we had to rapidly move the pot to allow water to flow away from the back door. I quickly unthreaded it/yanked it from the trellis with fairly minimal damage and retreaded it a few days later again with fairly minimal damage. In between it was in a pile on the decking. Since then it has had loads of new flowers so clearly wasn't stressed about it!

Yes they are such lovely plants with that incredible sweet perfume wafting over the garden on the hot summer evenings

And really tough into the bargain!! WOW . I've had a jasmine for 6 years, no flowers, (hardly any growth) and in the same area some new honeysuckle 2 years ago r there's no comparison!