How do you encourage honeysuckle to grow

Question

I planted honeysuckle last year, but this year there is hardly any growth, how can i encourage it to bloom

Answer 1

All climbers have to grow very fast in order for them to climb to the top of what they are climbing in order to get light and sun.Yours is not,which suggests it got too dry or the roots have been chewed etc.You need to throw it out and buy another,as your current one is always going to be sickly

Answer 2

I planted one 2 years ago in a dark spot below some 10ft high conifers, only watered it when I remembered therefore totally neglected it. This summer it has shot up and is inter mingling with the trees and even has a few flowers on. I would leave yours for anothe year and see how it goes, nothing gained, nothing lost.

Answer 3

Honeysuckle is notorious for sulking for a protracted period of time after planting. I coddled and encouraged the one I planted out at the mailbox and finally gave up on it and its ridiculous little stem. I wasn't exactly what you'd call patient. I just stopped trying.

I don't know when the honeysuckle began to grow. All I know is that one day I found myself out there armed with pruning saws and shears, and fighting that sucker from billowing right across the street. I had planted a laurel hedge along the front of the property, as well, and the honeysuckle wandered in there.  Honeysuckle and laurel are worthy opponents in their later-life obnoxiousness, so I just left them to it, and it was a most happy co-existence.

Answer 4

try some organic fertiliser

or spray honey water on it