I'm trying to grow honeysuckle, ironic thing is I tried sugar water and it browned. The leaves are dropping. I tried Miracle Grow and other fertilizers, but the plants never get taller. I only sprouted one flower. Anyone else have this problem?
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Because Honeysuckle is very invasive probably not many raising it.
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Lets clear something up------Not all Honeysuckle vines are invasive. Please look at my picture attached. You will see on that railing, is a honeysuckle vine in bloom right now, red/orange color. I can find a closer up shot. But that honeysuckle vine has been on that railing for 20 years, do you see any invasiveness about it. NOPE. Do I trim it, very little in general. The truck part to the soil stays relatively lean, no suckers etc. I have put Bone Meal around the base once a year and leave the mother nature rain move it into the soil to the roots.
Now to @thundertomatoes , nope never had whatever problems your speaking of with mine for over 20 years. My plant is in really dumb clay soil. As I do recall 20 years ago, I did dig a big hole, to get take out some of the clay soil in the position I was going to plant it, and then back filled it with good garden soil, before I set in the wee plant, 20 years ago, which is why I bone meal it yearly. Once in a blue moon, maybe every two years I will pour a cup of diluted fish emulsion at the base. I got my plant from Heronswood Garden, in Washington state.
My honeysuckle was chosen for its attraction for hummers not for the smell--which is does not, the hummers love it. So sitting on the deck with a glass of wine watching hummers bounce about is awesome I have other things about with fragrance.
I can later go look up the "actual" name of my vine .
So, stop the sugar water? Never ever have I heard of that for any plant, your just going to draw ants that way. And stop the fertilizing,
your plant has had enough. Just walk away from it.
Now to @thundertomatoes , nope never had whatever problems your speaking of with mine for over 20 years. My plant is in really dumb clay soil. As I do recall 20 years ago, I did dig a big hole, to get take out some of the clay soil in the position I was going to plant it, and then back filled it with good garden soil, before I set in the wee plant, 20 years ago, which is why I bone meal it yearly. Once in a blue moon, maybe every two years I will pour a cup of diluted fish emulsion at the base. I got my plant from Heronswood Garden, in Washington state.
My honeysuckle was chosen for its attraction for hummers not for the smell--which is does not, the hummers love it. So sitting on the deck with a glass of wine watching hummers bounce about is awesome I have other things about with fragrance.
I can later go look up the "actual" name of my vine .
So, stop the sugar water? Never ever have I heard of that for any plant, your just going to draw ants that way. And stop the fertilizing,
Well I looked it over looks more like a Hummingbird Trumpet Vine.
Had a Son eat seeds of a wild Trumpet Vine. Not good.
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Had a Son eat seeds of a wild Trumpet Vine. Not good.
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Nope, no trumpet vine in the description, I can recall the description very well, and nothing said about Trumpet Vine in it. Would not have gotten it had that word been in the description. And a "trumpet vine" can be invasive.
Regarding your son eating the seeds, is why I find it funny when folks say "that such and such plant is poisonous to cat/dogs" When the cat has more sense of what not to eat than humans.
Actually my Son was trying to get messed up. He beat the something out of his wife thinking she was someone else.
State is taking care of him. He was living with us for awhile but he was too much he hears many voices, if he takes his medication he only deals with a few.
Funny here Government don't want you planting Honeysuckle but Trumpet Vine is ok.
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Husband brought a Trumpet vine over from his parents house, he put it at the far end on the fence line, it only took one year for me to see babies from it popping out of the ground near it. And it was reaching to entangle itself to a shrub. I pulled the whole thing out, and all babies,, tossed on the burn pile. Don't need chancing a vine, have enough to deal with.
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Sorry to hear about your son, @big rockpile . Sad for his wife, hope she is better, and has had some counseling. I worked in Mental Health field for years. Eight years working in a Psych Hospital. Its all about getting the right cocktail of meds. Make sure you have the list of them, and do some research for side effects. One of my jobs was medication review, sometime I'd find that 3 separate meds caused the same side effects, so it was understandable that a certain behavior could be caused by that. My job was to lower and/or get another combination started . Working with the doctors of course, and behavior plans with the staff. Its a heart ache for a parent to see their child like that, sorry for you.
Honeysuckle has just about took over my place other than where I have animals.
Went through and cut it, put Roundup on it, come back worse than ever.
Son is going to be under state care far as I can see rest of his life. Better than when he was living on the street.
Him and his wife are divorced.
I don't know which is worse. Got a Son living with us. Now listen close. He is married to a woman that left him setting in Key West with nothing but T Shirt and Shorts. No money, no ID, no Transportation, nothing.
He made his way back here has two girls by two other women. Bought a house with another woman. Left her and is living in our Apartment.
Got another Son don't want anything to do with me.
One Son him and his wife have Cancer but both are waiting on me to die.
Daughter we don't have enough money and actually work.
And one Son that owes me $8,500.
Me I've had Prostate Cancer for years and I guess now it is in my bones.
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Went through and cut it, put Roundup on it, come back worse than ever.
Son is going to be under state care far as I can see rest of his life. Better than when he was living on the street.
Him and his wife are divorced.
I don't know which is worse. Got a Son living with us. Now listen close. He is married to a woman that left him setting in Key West with nothing but T Shirt and Shorts. No money, no ID, no Transportation, nothing.
He made his way back here has two girls by two other women. Bought a house with another woman. Left her and is living in our Apartment.
Got another Son don't want anything to do with me.
One Son him and his wife have Cancer but both are waiting on me to die.
Daughter we don't have enough money and actually work.
And one Son that owes me $8,500.
Me I've had Prostate Cancer for years and I guess now it is in my bones.
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@big rockpile , Wow. Sorry for you.
Hey it's all good it is what the Lord dealt me. Still doing good until I pass which everyone does.
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That's is my saying---Its how you play the cards that is dealt to you that matter.
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What are the beautiful white and yellow flowers in the foreground. Look like lilies of some variety?
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Azalea shrub.
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Oh! I can’t have one of those! A friend of mine who used to live in the Toronto area would post photos of beautiful flowers and shrubs and I would always say “I want one of those” and he would say “You can’t have one of those” (I am Zone 3).
