One suggestion - I take two vitamin B1 tablets about 30 minutes before I start my gardening. The aroma of the vitamin is secreted by your skin and the gnats and mosquitos don’t like it. It eliminates the need to wear a net or spray yourself with a repellant. Give it a try. Thanks for the video, I didn’t realize that you can make a hedge from honeysuckle; I’ve only seen people use it to climb a trellis mounted to a building or fence.
So, there is no need for a trellis as this type of honeysuckle grows like a shrub and can support itself. I will be doing an update video on all my hedges in the next couple of weeks and you will see the hedge is coming along nicely :)
I hope your vines grow quickly. 😃 Please shoot an update video once you have a hedge. I've purchased two honeysuckle vines to plant on my fence this spring.
I do too 😀 I will point out though, that these aren’t vines, but actual bushes. I have honeysuckle vines elsewhere in the garden. They always grow very well.
Awesome. Love it. I came here while searching for "Golden Honeysuckle" as I've got around 100 cuttings I've taken from a relative's hedge. She can't remember exactly what it is but I'm 99% sure I've identified it as Golden Honeysuckle. Not long got into gardening and seeing how you've made your video and taking a quick look at your playlist, I've subscribed and activated the bell. I'm really going to enjoy trundling through your videos. Massive thanks also for the bit in the middle about taking cuttings. You've explained that far better than many other videos I've seen. I just wish I could show you a photo of what I've done so far with this hedge and the two massive planters I've made.
Welcome aboard! Those cuttings I took, 90% of them took and I am planting them p in that hedge line, to hopefully sooner than later block out next door! Any questions you have, please don't hesitate to ask :)
I well do the same. but mine i plant them on water course try if they have some roots coming and it succes now ready to plant them on soil like what you dId .. thank you . for sharing . watching from norway ..🇳🇴
Thanks for this....I have a honeysuckle growing that will have to be moved soon so I will consider doing a hedge. The neighbour's dog was trying to steal the show.
When I was growing up in El Paso, TX many, many decades ago, we all had stone walls dividing our properties from one another. I suppose the stones were dug out of the foundation holes when the houses were built. The walls ranged from 4 to 20 feet tall, depending upon the slope of the land, and all had beveled tops, I suppose to shed what little percipitation we received each year. We children used these stone walls as highways to traverse the neighborhood. It was a shock when I moved to another city to find mere chain link fences - if any fence at all - between many of the houses. It felt very bare and insecure. I've no fences on my current property, but there are red cedar and maple hedges around most of it. I keep thinking of making a raspberry fence hedge (fedge) across the front.
Thank you, I enjoyed viewing your video and your sense of humor too. one question, it takes how long for the cuttings to grow to the size ready to plant in the ground/planting pot, and also how long to grow to 2 feet high, then transplant to place to produce the hedge? Thank you. I remember when I was a kid, I visited my uncle's place where he had a honeysuckle in front of his house, and he made dry Honeysuckle tea for me. Love it. thank you for taking time to answer my question. appreciate.
I planted them the year after I took the cuttings, but you could pot them up and leave it another year if you wanted them especially stronger. It took two years for them to grow 2ft and now the cutting are 3ft. I actually did an update video the other day but something went wrong. I will hopefully redo it in a couple of days. All looking good though :)
Great video I like the "room" perspective outside and good instruction on cuttings. Loved the oops! Very real. This will be a good solution to the honeysuckle that is pulling down the fence between myself and my neighbors. A natural fence! Hopefully my neighbor will agree.😄
Great video! I love honeysuckle plants are so beautiful and fragrant. I'm going to plant many this autumn like you did. This was very inspiring, I hope you can make a good fence to keep unwanted visitors away. Thanks!
Hello, great video sir! I like the tips and thorough instructions you give on how to make other plants from limbs and such and to the proper spacing and digging as well. Well done!
Thanks for the info! Ill soon be taking some transplants out around my farm here in Alabama for service and a little regrowth for privacy. But most of all thank you for carrying on while I was laughing my arse off while you kept your cool and didn't turn around on that puppy with your shovel! Oh, calm down everyone! I love animals but he came up behind him. Good dog went with mama and didn't shine on the beautiful new shurbs✌❤
@@TheOptimisticGardener nice good they took... I've been out and followed your tips . Took around 30 cuttings only need 3 plants for the space I'm trying to fill 🤞🏻
Good idea! The cuttings that I took, 90% of which took, are ready to be planted and I want to fill the line out a bit. I shall hopefully shoot it next week, weather permitting :)
Thank you for the video. I love the British humour in there ;) I am in the UK, but not originally from here. Can you show us how to tie them with wire, or how to helo them climb? Did you do anything else apart from just planting them? If there is a video showing this, could you please point me in the right direction? Many thanks.
So they are not climbers, they literally just grow like a bush. I am supposed to be doing a follow up video this week, plus I believe at the end of that video there is a link to another follow up vid I did last year.
Fantastic information... I want to take some honeysuckle cuttings.. Its growing wild all over near some allotments... How long will I have to get the cuttings home and do as you suggested... Also how should I store them once I cut them from the Bush... Best regards and stay safe
Thanks Bob. Take a plastic bag with you, either a carrier or a big freezer type one and put a touch of water in it to make it damp. Once you cut them, put them in the back and seal it up and you will have an hour or two. I am just about to plant up 5 plant from the cuttings I took in the video, they all took really well, 90% of them :)
Many times I wonder how folks keep their dogs in their own yard....chains, I suppose! Out here in the Desert SW, folks use Chainlink fencing and Rock walls if they do not have the money for Wood fences! Rock is our natural resource!
As an English person watching videos and programs on American 'backyards', I always wonder about how the owners know what is their property and what is their neighbours and how they deal with disputes over planting on the boundary. We have a saying - 'good fences make good neighbours'. Also, how is it possible to keep children and pets safe?
For pets they often use electric collars. My neighbour has an electric cable all the way around that deters the dog. For children it is called the xbox :). I am lucky I live at the end of a cul-de-sac that is very quiet. You will also normall see marked metal posts in the corners mark your boundary, but I know what you mean, it is something I have never got used to. A small downside, as I am lucky enough to have a one acre plot which I never would have been able to afford in the UK :)
Funny enough I have a ton of foliage around my property and I’m told I should cut it back so that I can see if any bears are around. I definitely take privacy over worrying about any bears. I also have a honeysuckle invading my deck! I didn’t know I could take cuttings of it and start up new plants. Great advice on where to cut and lopping off the leaves etc. Thks dude! (Hope that they take as that would save a lot of hassle. Would it help to have them on just water for a couple of weeks?)
@@TheOptimisticGardener I might get some cuttings of my honeysuckle bushes and do what you did and doing. Need a trim on my side too low to ground. Back in 2018 City worker was threatening to cut down my evergreens , also for my privacy. I planted soon after moved into new home. I planted the evergreens for windbreak, noise on corner and winter snow control in yard. My chain link fence kept them from doing this. Oh I wish this place would have interested buyer so I could move back near relatives or to West coast where other relatives are. Medicine Hat AB. is not where I wanted to move to in first place.
I have a honeysuckle bush, but new neighbours was starting to butcher. Young people don't understand my want of privacy and not want to see their mess in their driveway. Had around 17 years after I moved into my home.
Made about 80ft of trellis from roofing lathes for the party fence..... neighbour nailed wooden planks above it to grow his climbing rose along. Of course trellis isn't any good for growing plants along 🙄
I apologize because I thought you were in the USA but the same rules still apply to you and that invasive honeysuckle. Because of ignorant people planting this invasive plant, I now have unwanted honeysuckles growing in my yard, I guess from birds crapping the seeds out everywhere. Anyway best of luck!
Why would you plant INVASIVE honeysuckle that is from Japan? There is a red coral honeysuckle that is native AND doesn't strangle out the trees and plants around it, while becoming unable to handle. The native flower doesn't smell pretty but at least it doesn't kill everything around it. When you plant these invasive honeysuckles, they grow berries that birds/animals eat, and when they get pooped out they grow everywhere else that isn't your property. Please respect the environment and other people.
One suggestion - I take two vitamin B1 tablets about 30 minutes before I start my gardening. The aroma of the vitamin is secreted by your skin and the gnats and mosquitos don’t like it. It eliminates the need to wear a net or spray yourself with a repellant. Give it a try. Thanks for the video, I didn’t realize that you can make a hedge from honeysuckle; I’ve only seen people use it to climb a trellis mounted to a building or fence.
I shall have a look at that, thanks!
Beautiful piece of comedy, 'I'm not expecting them all to take, whaaack', magic, laughed out loud, what perfect timing.
Glad you enjoyed it :)
I Love a little humor with my gardening. Great job!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
So many healthy benefits from honeysuckle too!
Good information and like all the background disturbances which make all real rather then all other video
I am about to plant up those cuttings I took. Hoping to block out the dog sooner rather than later :)
Thanks for the video. Have you added a trellis or welded wire fence for the honeysuckle to grow onto? 🐶
So, there is no need for a trellis as this type of honeysuckle grows like a shrub and can support itself. I will be doing an update video on all my hedges in the next couple of weeks and you will see the hedge is coming along nicely :)
I love your sense of humor through all the distractions 😂
Thanks Cheryl :) The bushes are just now flowering too and growing strongly!
O,good job
Love the fact that you don’t cut out the funny stuff 😝
Thank you :) Apologies for the late reply!
I hope your vines grow quickly. 😃 Please shoot an update video once you have a hedge. I've purchased two honeysuckle vines to plant on my fence this spring.
I do too 😀 I will point out though, that these aren’t vines, but actual bushes. I have honeysuckle vines elsewhere in the garden. They always grow very well.
Awesome. Love it. I came here while searching for "Golden Honeysuckle" as I've got around 100 cuttings I've taken from a relative's hedge. She can't remember exactly what it is but I'm 99% sure I've identified it as Golden Honeysuckle. Not long got into gardening and seeing how you've made your video and taking a quick look at your playlist, I've subscribed and activated the bell. I'm really going to enjoy trundling through your videos.
Massive thanks also for the bit in the middle about taking cuttings. You've explained that far better than many other videos I've seen. I just wish I could show you a photo of what I've done so far with this hedge and the two massive planters I've made.
Welcome aboard! Those cuttings I took, 90% of them took and I am planting them p in that hedge line, to hopefully sooner than later block out next door! Any questions you have, please don't hesitate to ask :)
So funny and informative. You have patience of Job!
Thank you!
Please update us with the progress on your hedge! 🌿👍
Will do! I will do a bit of an update of all the different hedges in my garden in the next couple of weeks :)
@@TheOptimisticGardener how did it go!?
I love how we see the real reason for the hedge, towards the end of the video. The annoying neighbour's dog!!! haha
Matt Murdoch I didn’t say and cut some footage out, but also the annoying neighbour 😂
@@TheOptimisticGardener I get it, behind every particularly annoying mutt, is an equally annoying human.
I well do the same. but mine i plant them on water course try if they have some roots coming and it succes now ready to plant them on soil like what you dId .. thank you . for sharing . watching from norway ..🇳🇴
Awesome video...I knew the real reason for the hedge would be revealed ! lol...great stuff
Thanks for this....I have a honeysuckle growing that will have to be moved soon so I will consider doing a hedge. The neighbour's dog was trying to steal the show.
absolutely awesome!~ Fact filled and a joy to watch. Thanks Mate!!
I am actually just about to plant five more, from the cuttings I took from the original bushes last year. They took really easy :)
Great 👍 Video & Information, But Also Humerus ! I.I'm Rollin ' & Can't wait 🤪 😎 To Try My Wild Honeysuckle Found On My Land ! Penney C., Al
eXCELLENT AND GOOD LUCK :)
When I was growing up in El Paso, TX many, many decades ago, we all had stone walls dividing our properties from one another. I suppose the stones were dug out of the foundation holes when the houses were built. The walls ranged from 4 to 20 feet tall, depending upon the slope of the land, and all had beveled tops, I suppose to shed what little percipitation we received each year. We children used these stone walls as highways to traverse the neighborhood.
It was a shock when I moved to another city to find mere chain link fences - if any fence at all - between many of the houses. It felt very bare and insecure.
I've no fences on my current property, but there are red cedar and maple hedges around most of it. I keep thinking of making a raspberry fence hedge (fedge) across the front.
Kirsten Whitworth ha! I think I have actually dug enough stones out of my ground to do that 😀
@@TheOptimisticGardener I know!
Thank you, I enjoyed viewing your video and your sense of humor too. one question, it takes how long for the cuttings to grow to the size ready to plant in the ground/planting pot, and also how long to grow to 2 feet high, then transplant to place to produce the hedge? Thank you. I remember when I was a kid, I visited my uncle's place where he had a honeysuckle in front of his house, and he made dry Honeysuckle tea for me. Love it. thank you for taking time to answer my question. appreciate.
I planted them the year after I took the cuttings, but you could pot them up and leave it another year if you wanted them especially stronger. It took two years for them to grow 2ft and now the cutting are 3ft. I actually did an update video the other day but something went wrong. I will hopefully redo it in a couple of days. All looking good though :)
Great video I like the "room" perspective outside and good instruction on cuttings. Loved the oops! Very real. This will be a good solution to the honeysuckle that is pulling down the fence between myself and my neighbors. A natural fence! Hopefully my neighbor will agree.😄
Glad you liked it and thanks for your great comment.
Lol. I cuttings are like "Hey I didn't say it was cool to put me in this video."🐞🐞🐝🐝🌿
Great video! I love honeysuckle plants are so beautiful and fragrant. I'm going to plant many this autumn like you did. This was very inspiring, I hope you can make a good fence to keep unwanted visitors away. Thanks!
Thanks, it’s coming along nicely and so are the cuttings 😀
@@TheOptimisticGardener Wonderful! Well done 🙂
Hello, great video sir! I like the tips and thorough instructions you give on how to make other plants from limbs and such and to the proper spacing and digging as well. Well done!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the info! Ill soon be taking some transplants out around my farm here in Alabama for service and a little regrowth for privacy. But most of all thank you for carrying on while I was laughing my arse off while you kept your cool and didn't turn around on that puppy with your shovel! Oh, calm down everyone! I love animals but he came up behind him. Good dog went with mama and didn't shine on the beautiful new shurbs✌❤
Yes, he's a pesky big brute of a dog now that definitely doesn't like me!
Had to laugh when the pot tipped 🤣 good information all the less . Cheers 👍
Glad you enjoyed it. I am just about to plant up the cuttings that I took. About 90% of the cuttings took, which is very pleasing :)
@@TheOptimisticGardener nice good they took... I've been out and followed your tips . Took around 30 cuttings only need 3 plants for the space I'm trying to fill 🤞🏻
Subscribed for you putting up with that dog xD
Lol, it's a constant bane of my life on that side of the garden :)
Very interesting I’m going to try this
I have five bushy plants from the cuttings I took, that I am about to plant 😀
Hi! Great video. It’s been a year, how are the hedges coming along? Can we have an update video please?
Good idea! The cuttings that I took, 90% of which took, are ready to be planted and I want to fill the line out a bit. I shall hopefully shoot it next week, weather permitting :)
@@TheOptimisticGardener how did it turn out? I'm trying to do the same thing
This is exactly why we live on a 300 acre farm no neighbours or dogs to deal with. If that was my dog I would bring him inside if I saw you planting.
You would have thought... :)
What a wonderful idea! I have been trying to decide what to plant along my rail fence for more privacy. Hadn't considered honeysuckle!
It is Lonicera Tatarica "Rosea"
Can we get an updated video on how this hedge is looking?!
So here is the update I did a few weeks ago in August. All going well. ua-cam.com/video/fFhAs0giwNg/v-deo.html
Great video mate, thank you ✌🏽
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for your comment :)
Thank you for the video.
I love the British humour in there ;) I am in the UK, but not originally from here.
Can you show us how to tie them with wire, or how to helo them climb? Did you do anything else apart from just planting them?
If there is a video showing this, could you please point me in the right direction?
Many thanks.
So they are not climbers, they literally just grow like a bush. I am supposed to be doing a follow up video this week, plus I believe at the end of that video there is a link to another follow up vid I did last year.
Fantastic information... I want to take some honeysuckle cuttings.. Its growing wild all over near some allotments... How long will I have to get the cuttings home and do as you suggested... Also how should I store them once I cut them from the Bush... Best regards and stay safe
Thanks Bob. Take a plastic bag with you, either a carrier or a big freezer type one and put a touch of water in it to make it damp. Once you cut them, put them in the back and seal it up and you will have an hour or two. I am just about to plant up 5 plant from the cuttings I took in the video, they all took really well, 90% of them :)
That's because they are invasive and strangle out all the plants around them
Do you have updated pics of this project?
I will put one in my posts. They are flowering at the moment and growing strongly :)
Many times I wonder how folks keep their dogs in their own yard....chains, I suppose! Out here in the Desert SW, folks use Chainlink fencing and Rock walls if they do not have the money for Wood fences! Rock is our natural resource!
Greensage so my next door neighbour has some sort of buried electrical line and the dog has a collar on that if it crosses over it gets a shock
@@TheOptimisticGardener I would do a fence! :)
As an English person watching videos and programs on American 'backyards', I always wonder about how the owners know what is their property and what is their neighbours and how they deal with disputes over planting on the boundary. We have a saying - 'good fences make good neighbours'. Also, how is it possible to keep children and pets safe?
For pets they often use electric collars. My neighbour has an electric cable all the way around that deters the dog. For children it is called the xbox :). I am lucky I live at the end of a cul-de-sac that is very quiet. You will also normall see marked metal posts in the corners mark your boundary, but I know what you mean, it is something I have never got used to. A small downside, as I am lucky enough to have a one acre plot which I never would have been able to afford in the UK :)
2:17 for pruning tips
Thanks
Nice
better fences make better neighbors 🤣another plant to add to my long wishlist. i'd like to have a nice hedge one day?
Maybe one day!
What is the soil mixture that you are rooting the cuttings in? Thank you.
As a rule, I just used sieved leaf mould, as it drains well.
Funny enough I have a ton of foliage around my property and I’m told I should cut it back so that I can see if any bears are around. I definitely take privacy over worrying about any bears.
I also have a honeysuckle invading my deck! I didn’t know I could take cuttings of it and start up new plants. Great advice on where to cut and lopping off the leaves etc. Thks dude! (Hope that they take as that would save a lot of hassle. Would it help to have them on just water for a couple of weeks?)
Milomia yes it feels naked all open 😀
Bylaw thinks it is alright for new neighbour to butcher my honeysuckle bush. Had 4 , only have 3.
thats annoying!
@@TheOptimisticGardener I might get some cuttings of my honeysuckle bushes and do what you did and doing. Need a trim on my side too low to ground. Back in 2018 City worker was threatening to cut down my evergreens , also for my privacy. I planted soon after moved into new home. I planted the evergreens for windbreak, noise on corner and winter snow control in yard. My chain link fence kept them from doing this. Oh I wish this place would have interested buyer so I could move back near relatives or to West coast where other relatives are. Medicine Hat AB. is not where I wanted to move to in first place.
I have a honeysuckle bush, but new neighbours was starting to butcher. Young people don't understand my want of privacy and not want to see their mess in their driveway. Had around 17 years after I moved into my home.
I had to cut the sound off at the end because my dog started barking at the dog barking in the video
:)
Brilliant 😂😂
Hey I have a Catahula Leopard dog named S'mores. But shes Tiger striped.🐺👽🦝
is that what next doors mutt is?
Ha! Hound of the Baskervilles!
Sofia Edmundson it proper doesn’t like me 😀
Monty Don loves a challenge, why don't you invite him over to keep the dogs and kids away whilst you get the gardening sorted 😁
Ha ha!
Will it root without using rooting hormones?
Yes, I am just about to plant six of the cuttings that took, no worries :)
Made about 80ft of trellis from roofing lathes for the party fence..... neighbour nailed wooden planks above it to grow his climbing rose along. Of course trellis isn't any good for growing plants along 🙄
Where can I buy this
I bought mine from my local online garden nursery Vesey's. I would google it and I am sure you will find somewhere :)
So, how do you keep the dogs from peeing on the plants and killing them?
The bushes are on the other side of an electrical dog line underground.
not in the USA..not legally...
😊👍
if you use rooting hormone they will all take
I often use rooting hormone, but keeping losing the bottle and can't find it when I use it :)
I can see why you want to build a hedge haha
Indeed! Just released a video earlier today on pruning those bushes this week 😀
@@TheOptimisticGardener oh yay! I look forward to watching it!
I apologize because I thought you were in the USA but the same rules still apply to you and that invasive honeysuckle. Because of ignorant people planting this invasive plant, I now have unwanted honeysuckles growing in my yard, I guess from birds crapping the seeds out everywhere. Anyway best of luck!
Why would you plant INVASIVE honeysuckle that is from Japan? There is a red coral honeysuckle that is native AND doesn't strangle out the trees and plants around it, while becoming unable to handle. The native flower doesn't smell pretty but at least it doesn't kill everything around it. When you plant these invasive honeysuckles, they grow berries that birds/animals eat, and when they get pooped out they grow everywhere else that isn't your property. Please respect the environment and other people.