Hmmm... What am I doing wrong?

after watching another fab edition of love your garden with the king that is Alan titchmarsh ☺️ I was inspired with a climber and a tipee to create some "height" by my bench... So I planted a honeysuckle (not sure which one one but should be a yellowy-peachy colour flower.. ) with a wigwam thingy... But I think Alan failed to mention how it will be bald at the bottom and grow out the top?? What's a girl to do? Any advice please

 

I'd just start training it down into the weave. It'll soon scramble around it.

 

00000000000000000000000000015810Hi Clueless,

As you've come this far I agree with Joolz, however..........

What you should have done was started with a small plant and kept pinching it out for the first year or so to create lots of side - shoots to train around the bottom . Then, instead of letting it grow straight up you keep twisting it around on the horizontal and pinch the top out when it reaches the top.

I'm not really sure a Honeysuckle is the right plant for this sort of thing, it could be too vigorous, hence why it's already planning it's escape.

 

Oops...

Ok thanks

 

They do get quite big, what I did for my neighbour was made him an arch for it to grow round, its now made a nice feature, he can easily get all the way round it to keep it under control,

It looks like you could do the same in front of the bench put a clematis at the bottom of what you have now to full the bare part they look lovely in flower and the birds love them.