Need help identifying climbing plant

Hi there,

Can anyone help identify this, which is climbing up a trellis in our garden. Once identified I'd like to know when/how to cut it back and so on. Photo was taken last June.

It's probably obvious but I'm a noob when it comes to gardening.

Cheers!

 

And here's another:

This one is free standing, about 6 feet high, grows tall thin canes.

 

First one is honeysuckle. Can't remember what the 2nd one is called but I'll watch with interest as I have one in my garden too.

Oh, and welcome to Gardener's Corner

 

Hi there Pabst

Second one is Kerria. I have some in my garden, I usually cut back the canes by about half in late spring after it has finished flowering.

Some useful tips on pruning honeysuckle here:
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=439

 

Welcome beer drinker. Where are you from?

I agree .. Honeysuckle and Kerria ... both lovely climbers.

 

Hmm! Just one small thing.
Kerria japonica pleniflora is not a climber.
It is just an upright growing shrub.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=K...arhAf_nYG4Bw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1536&bih=703

While the Lonicera shown is a twining climber

 

As far as Kerria japonica goes I dig it out on sight. Suckers like billyoo and can become problematic in my experience.

 

Agreed, it can be a bit invasive Longk. I think it needs some competition from other large shrubs or even small trees nearby, then it is less likely to spread so much.

 

I do agree with this, but I have always called it a 'scambling shrub' which climbs into other shrubs and trees ... we have many here which do not grow in the UK.

 

There was one here when I moved in in 2012. I dug most of it out, but in a few months it was suckering like crazy, so it went. Maybe I should have put it next to the dog rose and let them fight it out!

 

My next door neighbour ( she's 93 and doesn't "garden" now) has a couple of patches of Kerria and whilst I wouldn't give it garden space personally, I looked at it developing it's new young flowering shoots
and I thought,*****************
a few stems of that would look nice in a flower arrangement featuring Iris and Anemone de Caen as companions,
Jenny

 

Thanks for the help people! The Kerria gets pretty vigorous (maybe up to 8 feet high) and usually needs cutting back a few times each year. It can't really spread anywhere though because it's surrounded by decking and fence.

I'm thinking about cutting the honeysuckle back because it seems a bit straggly. It's on a corner of a wall so half is in sunlight and half in shade. The sunlight half seems to do the best. I'd like to persuade it to grow in a more even way over the shaded part. There are already a few sprouting buds. Is now a good time for pruning?

I'm wary because I am the bringer of death in my garden. Plants quake when I reach for the secateurs.

 

There's no reason why you shouldn't prune the honeysuckle now and if it doesn't survive you can blame me not yourself.