Want to use a tree to support a honeysuckle vine

Hi all. I live in NYC and planted honeysuckle in my front yard. (Faces east, tons of sun). I built a trellis to support the vines. I don't really like the effect. So I was thinking of planting a small tree that would not grow over 10' and spread only about 2'. (I think I'm asking a lot). I figure, if I could get the height, I could prune the sides to maintain the spread. I was thinking of a forysthia. But I want something that is not a runner and non-invasive.

Anyone with a suggestion?

By the by. Should I prune the honeysuckle heavily? This is its third year, I don't know if I should prune it almost to the ground of just leave it alone.

Thanks for the help.

CForbin

I don't know much a bout honeysuckle except that it grows every where here and, but maybe get a tree that blooms when the honesuckle is not and let the honeysuckle bloom the rest of the year.

I think forsythia will be much too wide for you.
What kind of honeysuckle?

I belive the common name is halls honeysuckle. My plan was something that flowered when the honeysuckle did not and vice versa.

Well then I guess I was reading your mind. LOL

Hey, Prple, you know the saying about great minds. Hope you all are doing ok in LA.

Yes great minds. The cold set in last night after rain and hail the night before. Yuck! How about up there in NY?

Finally feels like winter. Unlike Mexico NY where they have 10 feet on the ground and getting more. We are getting freezing rain, pushed by wind. Talk about getting stinging slaps to the face. NF. Although I really (not kidding) miss the good old days when we got blizzards that dumped 3 feet of snow or more. I still remember a blizzard when I was a kid. We were out of school for a week. It was great.

We don't get enough snow here to even take count, but when I was little we lived in NC for a while and we got snowed in a couple of times. I can still remember telling my parents I was ready to pack up and go back home to LA after a couple of days.

I wonder if Halls grow with as much vigor up in NYC as they do down here in Ga?
I ask this bgecuase My Mom lives in Miane, and many species that we have here (liek dogwood and azalea etc) grow in both climates- but they are twice the size here!

My Halls is a monster - literally-It did nothing for 3 years, then *whammo!* I wish I hadnt put it where I did becuase I have to mow over its lil vines. they creep out into teh lawn and go Everywhere! I pulled out some by the roots and threw them in teh woods... and they started and are starting to take over the nearby hickory.

Perhaps you'll not have to warn your neighbors in the Bronx, but plan on planting a tree large enough to handle it in 5 years. Good luck!

Nin

Forsythia is a shrub not a tree. And I think pruning any 10 foot tree to only be 2 feet wide would leave you with a rather strange looking tree!
I am not familiar with this honeysuckle.(Mine grows on a trellis arch over a ga). I do howeber grow clematis in trees and have them in Hawthorne and Japanese tree lilac. The Hawthorne could be kept to a reasonable size ( but not 2 feet wide!)

You need a tree that would be strong enough to withstand the rampages of a honeysuckle in full growth - they get HUGE very quickly here, I planted a cutting about six inches tall two years ago, on one side of a garden arch - it's now about 6" tall up the side of the arch, with mulitiple branches!

I have a honeysuckle (orange flower, non-scented, reputedly native) growing up the narrow trunk of an ornamental cherry on the west side of my boulevard garden here in Vancouver, Canada. The tree supports the vine well, but a massive invasion of aphids has been eating the season's first blossoms and making a great mess of tender new leaf growth. I've had to cut the plant back in early summer, after which the plant only recovers enough leaves to attract mildew in the fall. Not a happy story!

I've heard that in this zone, which is getting drier and drier July through October, wetter and wetter the rest of the year, aphids often attack honeysuckle even when it is located where the light and circulation are good. However, I suspect that the shade of the canopy contributes to the woes of my poor vine.