Eldest daughter and I went to garden centre yesterday and bought some of these. She has a wall with trellis on top and wanted some interesting cover between herself and neighbours , they get on very well but don't really want to be able to see into each others houses. One section needed filling in pretty quickly hence buying plants but the rest can wait. I said (without thinking about it) we should be able to take cuttings and grow them on to complete the job.

Please can anyone advise me how and when to do this.

Otherwise I may find myself buying some more.

With a young family and not too much spare cash would like to be able to help them. We are working on starting veggie areas.

They really need 2 or 3 years to get their feet down, otherwise you are just stressing the plant further. They will rattle away when they get settled in, so just hold tight.

Clems are quite difficult to grow from cuttings, but there are some nice clear instructions on how to try on Plocket's site:

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- click cuttings, or you could also try layering.

I've never tried honeysuckle cuttings but my book says you can do softwood or semi-ripe cuttings in summer or hardwood cuttings in winter and should have about an 80% success rate.

Do you need info. about how to do softwood/semi-ripe/hardwood cuttings, or did you just want to know what type to do?

If you do end up looking for any more quick growing climbers for the gap, have a look at winter Jasmine and Chaenomeles speciosa nivalis.

Thanks for the help, clueless about what to do. Just thought it should be possible. Won't attempt it until next year as I think they need time to settle in. I just thought I better find out what to do.

Honeysuckle is a doddle. It "takes" very easily

Let us know if you want more info. when you're ready to do them. Or you could have a look in your local library for this book:

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How about growing them some annual climbers next year. You could bung in some runner beans now - they make really a really lovely show and were originally brought over to Europe as decorative plants. We used to have a fence covered with them in the summer in our old house, just put up some canes at an angle.

Annual climbers sounds a good idea for covering space on a budget - I grew climbing nasturtiums (

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) up a gap on my fence last year where something died and they covered it in no time & were very colourful. Not too late to sow beans or nasturtiums this year either. And they could try Ipomoea and Thunbergia next year too if they don't mind trying some things that are a bit more fiddly.

I've got honeysuckle and some clematis Plum - I'd be more than happy to take some cuttings and if I wrap them up damp and send them 1st class they should get to you in 24hours. Pm me your address if you like?