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| I recently planted a honeysuckle into my garden, in a partial shadey area
| against a trellis. I loosely fixed the new growth against the trellis, and
| it seemed to do very well, almost doubling it's height with lots of new
| green shoots. In the last couple of weeks however, it seems to have lost a
| lot of green leaves around the base and it seems to be travelling up the
| rest of the plant leaving lots of brown twiggey bits with no new growth!!
| The current green leaves have a white colur on them? I am not sure what I
| have done to make it react this way, I have been watering it every other
| week with miracle grow.
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| Can anyone help at all? Is it dying and if so, is there anything I can do?
| The plant has never flowered.
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| Mildew. Honeysuckle is a martyr to it.
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| Spray with Murphy's Dynocap or something similar.

Nah. Do nothing. Even the 'evergreen' forms don't suffer from losing
their leaves in autumn, and will reshoot happily next year. I call
Lonicera japonica "semi-evergreen", which about describes it.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.