Honeysuckle is a low maintenance plant. It is available in two varieties: a fragrant climbing honeysuckle or a beautiful woody shrub. Both varieties require full sunshine and yield glorious flowers in yellows, golds, whites, pinks, and reds. The climbing variety is often trained to grow up fences, walls, trellises, and stakes.
Plant the honeysuckle in the early spring. After the threat of frost has passed in the spring, you may plant the honeysuckle in your garden. If you are using the honeysuckle as ground cover, plant them between two and five feet apart. If you are training your honeysuckle, place each plant six to twelve inches away from the support structure and three to fifteen feet away from other plants.
Dig a hole as deep as the plant's current root system. The hole should be two to three times wider than its container.
Combine new compost into the soil you removed from the hole.
Remove the honeysuckle from its container without damaging the root system.
Loosen the plant's soil with your fingertips before placing it in the hole.
Scoop half of the soil-compost mixture into the hole. Water the area to remove unwanted air pockets. Allow all of the water to drain.
Fill in the rest of the hole with soil-compost mix.
Water your transplanted honeysuckle thoroughly.