Dead Heading Honeysuckles

I have 5 honeysuckles. As an experiment I have dead headed one just after flowering as I would do with roses and lilac to see if there is an increase in flowering. There seems to be more or is it my imagination?

 

Never thought of doing that but I like the berries as well

Spruce

 

Thanks For answering Spruce

Anyone else?

 

Hello Mike

I have the deciduous honeysuckle 'Graham Thomas' which looks great around midsummer when it's in full flower and then degenerates into a rather sorry-looking heap. So I give it quite a severe chop - a rather extreme form of dead-heading - to tidy it up. It quickly recovers and I usually get a few more flowers later in the season. I don't worry about losing the berries as they are squishy and, to me, rather yucky.

 

Just to report that the deadheading worked on both plants and I have a good second blooming. mike

 

Thanks for the update , what are the varieties that you done this to ??


Spruce

 

Interesting, never thought of deadheading mine. But I get a nice second bloom every year, so leaving it alone.

 

Sorry spruce, but I do not know varieties. One has red flowers, the other yellow!

 

Ta

Spruce