Honeysuckle not well :(

It might be powdery mildew, FC? If it's in a planter and has gone short of water at some stage, or if the weather has been as dire there as it is here, there are a lot of fungal diseases about this year.....

 

Not sure that honeysuckles can have too much water Clearing up the old leaves will prevent re-infection, then either spray with fungicide or the more eco-friendly solution would be to drench the compost with a systemic fungicide (if they're still available over there?)

 

FC you're honeysuckle would probably be a lot happier in the ground which is not so restricting.

 

I'm sure you can't drown honeysuckles enough!

Are you sure it's not just naturally molting? All evergreen honeysuckles shed there leaves at some point during the year. In fact mine has just shed at least 40% of its leaves.

Also my new honeysuckle didn't flower for the first 3-4 years.bear with it and water it loads

 

Honeysuckle is pretty tough, I don't see why you couldn't move it now as long as you keep it watered until it's settled. It will probably sort it's problems out too.

 

If you decide to treat it, http://www.rhs.org.uk/media/pdfs/advice/fungicides

Looks as though Bayer and Westland both do systemic fungicides still....

 

I noticed today that my honeysuckle is getting ready to flower. This is significant because it's early life had it in a container that was too small, and it never got fed (I was less keen on gardening back then). Then we moved and I brought it with us, and between leaving Sheffield and arriving here, there was about 6 weeks where we lived at my mam's and all our stuff lived at various people's houses, and the honeysuckle went in a disused little alley thing at my dad's, where it was completely forgotten about for several months before we found it again. It then spent about a year tucked down the side of our house, getting almost no sun and missing out on all the watering (having been forgotten about again). Then about 2 years ago I found it again, shoved it in a hastily dug hole in the ground, and didn't even water it in. Last year it did nothing at all. Literally nothing. It was alive, but had lost the will to live. Then this year its been growing, and like I said, has now started to produce flower buds. Its amazingly tough stuff it seems.

@FC, if your's has a fungi problem, I wonder if you'd get away with cutting it right back so it grows again from the base (I wouldn't cut below the lowest sign of life on each stem though).

 

I've got an evergreen honeysuckle in a container which isn't growing an awful lot but is producing flower buds. It does need to be in a container because of where it is, but I am going to give it a much larger one.