Today, so-called hedges, which are created thanks to the planting of various ornamental shrubs, are more and more common in areas of the private sector. Many people use vines for this, which with the help of special supports grow into a height of several meters and at the same time have flowers that delight the owners throughout the month. Consider what constitutes honeysuckle honeysuckle and how to properly care for it.
Honeysuckle Capricole: Description of Aromatic Vine
Honeysuckle - This is a climber, which with the help of a support with ease rise to the desired height. Determine that before you it is a honeysuckle, you can easily by the following features:
- Plant height reaches 4-5 m. This size is achieved most often after five years of life.
- Light green shoots in the sun become pink-red.
- The leaves resemble in shape ellipses.
- Capricole flowers are inflorescences on fairly long tubes, arranged in bouquets and have a spicy scent.
- The berries are orange in color, but are not edible.
Did you know? The species name Kaprifol in Latin means "goat leaf" - goats with pleasure feed on the leaves of this vine. Therefore, the plant has another name - goat honeysuckle.
Where better to grow honeysuckle
Very important for obtaining good growth of the plant is important its place of landing. Blooming honeysuckle loves the sun, in such conditions it blooms better. It is important to protect from the wind. These can be trees or any buildings. 
Lighting for better growth
Capricole, like other species, needs a lot of sun, it is with its help that decorative honeysuckle will grow well and bloom for a long time. It is better when the plant will be planted on the eastern side of the plot, as the early sun will allow you to be fed with strength to open the flowers in the evening and give the surroundings a pleasant aroma.
Did you know? As some doctors say, the smell of these flowers helps to overcome stress and nervousness.
Soil for growing honeysuckle capricole
To the land in which the plant will continue to grow, it is not demanding. The range of acidity is quite large - from 3.9 to 7.7. Best of all, curly honeysuckle grows on slightly acidic and neutral soils, which have a pH of 5.5-6.5.
Together with honeysuckle will look great ornamental shrubs such as: viburnum, spirea, hydrangea, chubushnik, elderberry, clematis, magnolia, hibiscus, deutsia, felt cherry, dogrose, snowdrop, juniper, heather.
How to plant honeysuckle in the garden: step by step instructions
The process of planting honeysuckle honeysuckle consists of the following fairly simple steps:
- Prepare a pit or ditch of such dimensions: 0.5 × 0.5 × 0.5 m.
- At the bottom of the put drainage, which consists of gravel, sand or brick chips.
- The earth that remains after digging a hole is mixed with peat or manure, trace elements are added.
- At the bottom, a small slide is formed.
- On the seedling a little pruned roots and placed in the center of the pit. The roots are recommended to be carefully leveled, then all watered and covered with earth.
- After thorough compaction, watered again.
- In conclusion, mulch the earth with peat or humus.
Terms of planting seedlings and planting pits preparation
The best results will be achieved if such manipulations are carried out in late autumn. The plant with open roots feeds on the beneficial elements of the earth and gains strength for growth next season.
When a bush is purchased with a closed root system, it can be planted at any time from spring to autumn. The depth of the landing hole is about 30 cm.
Important! For a good plant to grow, it is important to properly prepare the soil mixture, it should consist of the following components: turf ground, humus, peat or regular sand (3: 1: 1).
The scheme of planting honeysuckle capricole
The best distance between bushes that will grow in a row is 1.5 - 2 m. Between rows, it is better to withstand 2 m. Such sizes are chosen because the plant lives on average 20 years and grows all the time.
A similar distance between the honeysuckle capricole will be convenient for planting and subsequent care, as well as the possible reproduction of the bushes.
Honeysuckle garden care rules
As experts say, the plant needs a minimum amount of care. The most important is to create a support if the landing does not occur near a wall or other surface that is vertical. It is important to remember that the higher the footing, the higher the plant can grow.
Three weeks after the landing, it is recommended to apply mineral fertilizer. This will provide additional strength for growth in the summer. Older plants can also be fed, but not more often than once a season.
Important! Water the plant thoroughly, especially during a drought.
All this will allow the honeysuckle capricole to bloom for a long time, and care and cultivation will not require much time and cost to purchase various additional drugs.
Honeysuckle support
Support for honeysuckle capricole can serve as any surface for which the plant can catch due to the small stickies, which are located along the entire length of the vine.
Depending on the idea of the owner or designer, it can be a fence or a regular grid, which is located between two buildings, a good support will be the old tree, which will be previously dug into the ground.
Did you know? There are cases when similar bushes were planted to form a green arbor. This is possible because the plant reaches a height of 7 meters.
Knowing how to plant honeysuckle honeysuckle in the spring, it is important to understand the features of spring pruning, so as not to inflict any unnecessary injury to the plant.
Features trimming honeysuckle
In order not to harm the plant, pruning is carried out in the spring. Sections are carried out only on frozen or damaged branches that will not be able to produce new shoots. It is better to do this when the kidneys wake up so that the accuracy of the cut is maximum.
To stimulate the emergence of new shoots after reaching the desired height, they cut off the tops at the main trunk. For the implementation of the fundamental rejuvenation of the crown using a fairly strong pruning, removing all above 0.5 m from the ground. 
Watering the plants and caring for the soil
During the period of heat, it is recommended to carefully water the honeysuckle twice a week, this will strengthen the roots after planting and provide the necessary care. The rest of the time once a week is enough. However, the stagnation of water in the soil is important, for this it is extremely important to make a drainage during planting.
Top dressing of a honeysuckle capricole
The plant needs additional feeding. For good growth, he needs a lot of minerals. It is important to feed the plant directly during the flowering period.
In order for honeysuckle and flowers for a long time to please those around them with their beauty, it is recommended to apply liquid fertilizer immediately after planting, and then care will be needed minimally. For the autumn and winter period, you need to pour wood ash under the bush.
Honeysuckle breeding
To increase the number of such plants on your site today use the following methods:
- Seeds. They are harvested in mid-summer by extracting from ripe fruit. To increase the number of seedlings, honeysuckle seeds are stratified before planting. To do this, they fall in the autumn in a container of sand and placed in the refrigerator. Every 14 days it is sprayed with water. In the spring they take a box, pour out the seeds with sand and add earth. All watered and covered with film, it can only be removed after germination. On a permanent place planted them in the fall.
- Cuttings. Harvest them before the end of flowering. At the future cutting should be 2-3 internodes, the ideal length of the workpiece in the region of 10 cm. The lower leaves are removed completely, and the upper half is reduced. Planted cuttings in the substrate of peat, soil and sand (2: 1: 2). They create a greenhouse and wait for heat. For the formation of new leaves cuttings sprayed with water for 30 days. In the open ground transplanted in the spring. With all the rules, the flowers of honeysuckle will delight with its beauty in the next season.
- Layering. One of the easiest ways to breed. Choose a suitable shoot and bend down to the ground, fixing the bracket. Poured on top of the ground and well poured plot. Dig out sprouted offspring the following spring, carefully separating it from the main plant.
- Division of the main bush. Dig a little bush and with a sharp shears cut off the escape with the roots. Sections are treated with ash, and the shoot is shortened by a third and planted in the selected location.
Having decided to increase the number of bushes in their area, many are interested in how to properly form a honeysuckle and when to start doing it. Experts believe that the first manipulations should be carried out immediately after planting, as the plant is growing rapidly.
Major diseases and pests of vines
Despite the fact that decorative honeysuckle is not considered to be too painful a plant, its vines are still sometimes affected by some pests. For example, when spots appear on the leaves, it is a fungal infection.
If we want to have good fruits from our garden, then it must be protected from pests: ants, bark beetles, weevils, spider mites, aphids, shrew, wireworms, earwigs, seed moths, ground beetles, slugs, caterpillars, mole rats, hawk.
To get rid of it in early spring, the honeysuckle is treated with the following solution: 2 tablespoons of copper sulfate and 10 liters of water. The resulting composition is sprayed with all the leaves and creepers of the honeysuckle, without exception, to eliminate any gaps. When a viral lesion occurs, the bush cannot be saved. In this case, it is completely excavated and burned.
The outlined information about the plant honeysuckle capricole will help to learn more about it, and therefore, having decided to make a hedge at your dacha, you will not have problems with implementing this idea.
