Wisteria advice
Discussion
Hi all,
We've never had wisteria before but bought this last weekend as it looked good and healthy and was a reasonable price from a good garden centre.
The plan is to train it so it fills this wall between the patio door and a window to the right. Its already 6 foot tall, so don't need much more height, but want it to bush out. It will be in full sunshine, that wall is south facing.
I've done a fair bit of research and but none I've seen are wound round the cane like this. What would my first steps be? When I undo the ties, can I simply manipulate it, with care, to where I want, or do I need to leave it on the cane? Its currently tied at the top to the hanging basket bracket to stop it blowing over.
One last point, which may make the task impossible/pointless, I have kept it in a pot as we plan to move house within the next 5 years and want to take it with us, if possible. So I plan to prune it when appropriate, so it doesn't get too big initially.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
We've never had wisteria before but bought this last weekend as it looked good and healthy and was a reasonable price from a good garden centre.
The plan is to train it so it fills this wall between the patio door and a window to the right. Its already 6 foot tall, so don't need much more height, but want it to bush out. It will be in full sunshine, that wall is south facing.
I've done a fair bit of research and but none I've seen are wound round the cane like this. What would my first steps be? When I undo the ties, can I simply manipulate it, with care, to where I want, or do I need to leave it on the cane? Its currently tied at the top to the hanging basket bracket to stop it blowing over.
One last point, which may make the task impossible/pointless, I have kept it in a pot as we plan to move house within the next 5 years and want to take it with us, if possible. So I plan to prune it when appropriate, so it doesn't get too big initially.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.
I've just inherited one of these.
Father died last year and there's a whopping great big one of these against the wall in his back garden. Looks like he trained it on horizontal wires about two feet/60cm apart. It's spread quite widely and looks great in Summer.
hasn't been touched for a year or more so it'll probably get messy this year - will find out how and when to trim/prune it.
Father died last year and there's a whopping great big one of these against the wall in his back garden. Looks like he trained it on horizontal wires about two feet/60cm apart. It's spread quite widely and looks great in Summer.
hasn't been touched for a year or more so it'll probably get messy this year - will find out how and when to trim/prune it.
They're pretty tough and like a good prune so I think you would be good. Having said that they grow like a weed when planted in the ground. I'm not sure what keeping it in a pot would do to it but I might be tempted to put it in a larger pot now to give it room to grow for a few years. Put some trellis then in the pot and let it grow on that, like that when you move you could prune it down to the trellis or thereabouts and take pot and trellis to the new location. It likes to be somewhere sunny if you want to maximise flowers. Alternatively you could put it in the ground now and try propagating it by layering. I'm doing this at the moment and planning to move the cutting.
Got one that’s now about 30 foot long along one side of my garden, bought specifically to stop the neighbours either side of me having conversations across my back garden. It did that job really well.
Hack it back quite a lot each year to keep it under control and every year it has the most amazing display of flowers late spring/ early summer. Once they get going they grow crazy fast.
Hack it back quite a lot each year to keep it under control and every year it has the most amazing display of flowers late spring/ early summer. Once they get going they grow crazy fast.
lufbramatt said:
Got one that s now about 30 foot long along one side of my garden, bought specifically to stop the neighbours either side of me having conversations across my back garden. It did that job really well..
Bl00dy neighbours, eh? I am growing a huge red Robin at the end of my garden to keep a nosy neighbour out of sight.
. Leftfootwonder said:
Hi all,
I've done a fair bit of research and but none I've seen are wound round the cane like this. What would my first steps be? When I undo the ties, can I simply manipulate it, with care, to where I want, or do I need to leave it on the cane? Its currently tied at the top to the hanging basket bracket to stop it blowing over.
What it did with the cane is just what they do when they have a cane in contact. They grow stupidly quickly up canes too.I've done a fair bit of research and but none I've seen are wound round the cane like this. What would my first steps be? When I undo the ties, can I simply manipulate it, with care, to where I want, or do I need to leave it on the cane? Its currently tied at the top to the hanging basket bracket to stop it blowing over.
You'll be able to unwind it from the cane and train it within the limits of flexibility but it'll keep the spiral permanently.
Tidy up in autumn and a hard prune in January. (Traditionally NY day...)
Has it flowered? I can’t make out any buds on the photo.
We bought one that looked healthy but didn‘t have any buds on it. 10 years later it still refuses to flower. I‘ve tried pruning it back to within an inch of its life and other years not touched it but no flowers.
Ended up buying a second one that already had flowers on it.
I think you are alright to remove the cane if possible although they do wrap around things pretty strongly if left for any time.
It will need some kind of support.
We bought one that looked healthy but didn‘t have any buds on it. 10 years later it still refuses to flower. I‘ve tried pruning it back to within an inch of its life and other years not touched it but no flowers.
Ended up buying a second one that already had flowers on it.
I think you are alright to remove the cane if possible although they do wrap around things pretty strongly if left for any time.
It will need some kind of support.
Martin_MUC said:
Has it flowered? I can t make out any buds on the photo.
We bought one that looked healthy but didn t have any buds on it. 10 years later it still refuses to flower. I ve tried pruning it back to within an inch of its life and other years not touched it but no flowers.
Ended up buying a second one that already had flowers on it.
I think you are alright to remove the cane if possible although they do wrap around things pretty strongly if left for any time.
It will need some kind of support.
There are some small flower buds at the top so I am expecting some flowers, hopefully. They were another reason we bought it as I had heard they can take 10yrs plus to flower if not. That's so frustrating for you. We bought one that looked healthy but didn t have any buds on it. 10 years later it still refuses to flower. I ve tried pruning it back to within an inch of its life and other years not touched it but no flowers.
Ended up buying a second one that already had flowers on it.
I think you are alright to remove the cane if possible although they do wrap around things pretty strongly if left for any time.
It will need some kind of support.
A job for the long weekend. I shall get some trellis and try not to kill it!
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