Honeysuckle + trellis =

Well, Kon, you'll find that "so called" vigorous plants don't always prove to be so for various reasons such as te location of the site and soil, and I assure it takes at least a year or two, or three before you see the Honeysuckl.e get to the state of growth that you want

One of things about creating a solely Honeysuckle Trellis archway is that you get a very limited season of flowering and colour whereas if you add a Clematis or climbing, repeat flowering, rose you greatly extend the interest and length of flowering/colour on what a trellis archway would be........a "statement" structure in your garden. You'll also find that planting things like hardy perennials is better when planting in 3's and 5's as it looks so much better than a solitary plant.
It's your garden, Kon, and while people can advice you it's up to you and your ambitions for the garden on how you want it to be You will have successes and you will have failures along the way of creating a garden that will bring a smile to your face when you look at it....all part of why we all garden.

 

I now that, Kon

Well, I don't know if you've seen my garden but it looks something like this......














Not to everyones taste, Kon, but I like it. If your wardrobe looks anything like this, then you're as mad as KFF, me, and a few others in tne GC Gang

 

Well, that archway takes you into the garden where you can go straight on the South narrow path or onto the Southeast path, either way means you get brushed by plants on either side, which is what and visitors like.........it's a kind of tactile garden
I tend to break the standard rules of "expert" advice and methods and the Archway is a example where there are around 30 Clematis, with a mixture of Honeysuckle, and Perennial Sweetpeas. There's a "Generous Gardener" shrub rose right up against it on the West side, "Kings Ransom" Shrub rose right against the SouthWest side along with a Mallow, my point being is that the intense planting breaks all the rules and shaking of heads of those who have a different method and style of garden. But, in a good year, the Archway is heavy with flowers and scent as you pass through/under it and actually requires little maintenance, that being tying back the Clematis and feeding.
We sometimes generalise too much with labelling plants as being too vigorous or being unsuitable for a site or garden and I have found over the years that Nature will surprise us and
a labelled vigorous plant will in fact due to the site, soil, etc be well behaved and those that are supposedly well behaved are the opposite But any plant that is too vigorous can be kept easily under control with a little training or pruning....but isn't that what gardening is all about? The only way to get the garden you want is to experiment and buy the plants that you want. I admit I'm a "little" extreme in my planting but ignoring the standard conventional rules and advice has, for me, paid off bring that smile to my face.

I have the same problem.......

 

I agree with Verdun, plant slowly but plant what you think would be right for your garden and don't be too restricted by the advice in the books as, apart from the experienced specialists, there are, in my humble opinion, no experts but only experienced, knowledgeable gardeners.....who still make mistakes or suffer failures as they go along.