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- The best time to cut the honeysuckle
- Cut honeysuckle after flowering
- Pruning the honeysuckle in autumn
- Care cut throughout the year
- Cut off offspring for multiplication
- Tips
The honeysuckle makes a wonderful hedge plant, because it grows quickly and is easy to maintain
The best time to cut the honeysuckle
The honeysuckle is a native shrub of the honeysuckle family. Hedge cherries are doing particularly well in natural hedges. At location and care the shrub makes no great demands. An occasional pruning is quite sufficient.
Cut honeysuckle after flowering
Many gardeners cut back the honeysuckle directly after flowering in early June. The pruning removes almost all withered flowers and therefore future berries.
A pruning in the summer is only useful if none of the most poisonous berries mature on the shrubs.
If small children or pets are often in the garden, it can reduce the risk of poisoning by hag cherries.
Pruning the honeysuckle in autumn
If you want to keep the decorative berries and also provide food for the birds in the garden, you should not cut hedge cherries until autumn. This is especially true for the edible blue honeysuckle.
The honeysuckle also tolerates a generous pruning very well. Just cut down everything that bothers you so the berry hedge stays in shape.
The berry bushes can grow up to three meters high. Therefore, you should cut back on the fence every year so that the plants do not get too tall and stay well sealed.
Care cut throughout the year
For the care of the shrubs you may reach for the whole garden year to the scissors. Overhanging shoots can be cut continuously. Even sickly and withered branches should be removed as soon as possible.
Cut off offspring for multiplication
The honeysuckle is propagated by lowering or cuttings. Propagation over cuttings is best done in late summer.
The hedge cherry's cut has made roots when the first new leaves are visible above. The shrubs thus propagated are transplanted in the following year to a sunny or shady spot with slightly moist soil.
Tips
Hedge cherries need little care beyond cutting. Complete dehydration of the soil they do not tolerate. Mulch the soil under the bushes to keep the soil moist and prevent weeds from sprouting.