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Tx!
Yep honeysuckle can go all bare and gnarly if it dies, but it's not a big deal as the aim is to have flowers to attract moths to get bats in at the Belfast Castle trees.
I cut mine back every year. Bramble and bindweed central here too...and sorrels and sticky willy everywhere!
But that's ok. Bar the surprise brambles in the lawn, ouch...
JWestland
i've got a line of plum trees, and there's native honeysuckle all over them. It doesn't seem to bother the trees at all, but when individual honeysuckle branches die, they stick around in huge tangled leafless snarls that look (imo) pretty fugly. I'm comfortable living with it, though. Goes with the huge tangled snarls of bramble and bindweed elsewhere(!)