Re: honeysuckle

In a message dated 12/12/00 10:22:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
deanslgr@juno.com writes:

<< more vigorous.  I wanted them to cover a chain-link fence and, after two
 years, they've still got a long way to go.  One of them is slightly >>

In a Vita Sackvile-West essay on fencing vines is an interesting technique 
with vines that will form a woody stem.

You run them along the top of the fence and then head them down to the soil, 
root the at a joint, every so many feet (you choose).  Back up to the top and 
so on.  Eventually you will have a living fence from a vine that would 
normally require support.  Clipping off the top foliage will give you fill in 
foliage.  Vita's experiment was with a grape vine which actually fruited 
despite this treatment.  The grape being ultra-vigorous is thus kept in 
check.  A fence of this sort would last for many years more than the gardener.

I tried espaliered crab apples along one side of my veg frames.  Ed built a 
frame and we kept the young trees to the frame.  This requires clipping all 
summer.  They have been there six years and only now are looking like a 
fence.  There were were a few crab apples this summer.  I think a vine would 
be much faster.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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