I have honeysuckle vines that have grown into a giant bush, interwoven
with a potato vine that has never blossomed much. I'm wondering when
the appropriate time to cut this beast back would be?

Thanks.

-F

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I have honeysuckle vines that have grown into a giant bush, interwoven
with a potato vine that has never blossomed much. I'm wondering when
the appropriate time to cut this beast back would be?

Thanks.

-F

My vining honeysuckles bloom until autumn, so get trimmed back shortly
after bloom is finished, or any time after leaf-fall, not necessarily
every year. If you have spring-blooming honeysuckles they'd be pruned
earlier, whenever there's an interuption in the flowering, or whenever the
berries shrivel or get mushy & are no longer decorative enough to be worth
delaying the pruning any longer. If pruned the "wrong" time of year that
won't do any real harm though more buds would be lost. Every few years,
the oldest woodiest of the vines should be removed to right near the
ground.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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Presuming you wish to enjoy the flowering, immediately after flowering. If
you have no wish to see the flowers this year, anytime during dormancy is
fine.

Dave

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I have honeysuckle vines that have grown into a giant bush, interwoven
with a potato vine that has never blossomed much. I'm wondering when
the appropriate time to cut this beast back would be?

Thanks.

-F

Thanks for the input here folks. I do plan on leaving a great deal of
the vines in tact, but wacking back the bulk. Kind of a haircut
instead of a beheading.

-Fleemo