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ndoe writes:
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| I'm hoping I might leran some possible reasons for major leaf loss
| which we've had for the second year running on a honeysuckle which we
| planted early last summer. It's sited against a 2 meter high fence and
| trellis facing west and appeared to grow quickly with plenty of bright
| green foliage. Within a month the leaves started to fall off low down,
| gradually spreading further up the stems but leaving new foliage at the
| end of the stems. The leaves turn a mottled yellow/ brown and there were
| no flowers last summer. This summer the same thing has happened again.

What's the soil like, and what sort of honeysuckle? many of the common
ones (L. japonica, periclymenum etc.) will do that if the soil is too
dry - including when it is too heavy.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.