honeysuckle

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I planted some honeysuckle in my garden last year, three little plants that I put in the ground against an ugly fence. They have all grown taller, but each one is a single stem, and I was hoping to end up with an actual bush. Should I have pruned them to make them bushier? Or did I not have enough plants to start off with? I did try to take cuttings in the autumn but they all died. Thanks,

Can you post a photo? Cutting them back to a pair of low leaves will encourage them to grow more stems, as will training the stems horizontally. Honeysuckle is really a scrambler, happiest scrambling through something bushy, it can look a bit sparse by itself.

Give it time, my honeysuckle took 2-3 years to really get going. I found weaving it through some trellis helped ‘bulk’ it out a bit and made a bit more of a feature of it. I’ve never pruned mine and would consider myself a novice gardener so not an expert by any means but it’s worked for me

Ah OK so it might be best to plant something else with it? I have a jasmine in another part of the garden the had done really well.

I'm out at the moment but will try to post a picture later.

Prune your honeysuckle now. Give it a feed. You will be amazed at how much it grows. Train it to go sideways or fan out to get lots of light to it.