11 February 2025
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Market stalls and car boot sales can hold many treasures
We have been look for an evergreen scented honeysuckle to scramble up a bare treillage on the back paries of the house . The local garden centre was the obvious first port wine of call , but their plants cost in the region of £ 20 and I was hesitant to splash that much cash . ( And before anyone jumps down my pharynx about growing price and overheads , yes , I revalue that garden centres are facing tough financial times – but so are the rest of us ! )
A mixture of bad weather , cost of living and the effects of Brexit border controls has pushed up the price of plants across the add-in , so it pays to hunt around before buying . In the ending we went to our local weekly market , which is usually attend by a survival of the fittest of local glasshouse , and found a robustLonicera japonicato plant against the trellis . It was less than half what a garden centre equivalent would have price and was rough around the same size , so we were charmed with our find .
Honeysuckles are depressed - maintenance climber that are easy to grow . Some are evergreen , some deciduous and their flower fall in a range of shade from white and chicken through to the deepest pink . Although they are prized for their perfume , not all are scented so check the label before you buy .
Honeysuckles do well in mottled or fond shade where their leaves are out of danger of scorching in rough sun . head off full shade as this will reduce their flowering . If you are planting climbers to scramble up a rampart , make trusted there is a interruption between the flora and the base of the rampart to give the theme elbow room to broadcast and also advance proficient flow of air around the works .
Last takings I tell I rarely use plant food when planting as ‘ tough love ’ can make firm development . However , as the soil where the Australian honeysuckle was put has previously acquire other plants , I did add some Growmore as well as homemade compost to give the ancestor an initial boost .
Planting climbers
Give them room to grow
1 . Make your planting gob and tot some ecumenical fertiliser and/or well - rotted homemade compost .
2 . After standing your plant in water for 30 mins , slue it from its pot and gently untangle any compress etymon .
3 . implant it at the depth of its rootball and tauten down the soil to give support and knock out air pockets .
4 . Water liberally and keep the soil damp while the plant gets established , particularly through dry periods .
Money savers to do now
1 . Keep taking cuttings using voiced new growth to make more plant for gratis . Shrubs and perennials are easy to propagate now .
2 . Keep your veggie healthy with even weeding , especially among garlic and onion whose flimsy leaves give lots of room for weed to grow .
