How To Plant, support and Train Wisteria PLUS Breaking out Concrete for Climbers!

[@triciadesigns]

I absolutely love your work and am trawling through all the posts I can find. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

[@carmenbailey1560]

Wow, my husband and I just dug mine out of my garden. It was such a big job, I was shocked to see just how big the roots got and just how far they went. I had I dug out because it’s a lot of plant to take care of and I knew it was beyond my capabilities. We have had many beautiful site with long mauve flowers. Thanks for sharing yours. 👍❤️😊 9:17

[@elisaangel9789]

Wisteria is definitely a reliable flowerer. That's how I can track where the neighbor's wisteria has wandered. They are pretty flowers. In my region, wisteria is invasive, so anyone adding it to his or her yard will have extra pruning to do to keep it under control.

[@virtualcircuit]

Bunny i just want to say i love these older videos. And that along with that wisteria looking amazing after 20 years the same could be said for yourself! I've got a well developed wisteria on an eastern facing sandstone wall that hasn't been trained properly. So am looking at hard pruning and starting again.

[@arianaconnor8208]

Thanks bunny , great and timely information for me

[@braydenblack763]

There are two types of Wisteria that actually do wrap counterclockwise. They are Chinese Wisteria (Wisteria Sinensis) and American Wisteria (Wisteria Frutescens). The one shown is this video is likely Japanese Wisteria (Wisteria Floribunda). Both Japanese and Chinese Wisteria can be invasive if not properly maintained. American Wisteria is much less aggressive, but still requires frequent pruning.

[@GorgeousB1986]

Very useful video, thanks. I read on a gardening website that wisteria should be planted 90cm away from the wall you want it to climb. I've planted mine about 40cm away as 90 looked way too far away. Should I plant it closer, as even 40cm looks too far? Yours looks like it is right next to the wall.

[@SpanishEclectic]

Wisteria is beautiful, but how it grows really varies from place to place. I have a purple one, and a Japanese white (Issae, I think it is) in large resin containers. I have to water them weekly during summer and fall here in Southern California. They are only 5 feet tall, and have maybe 30 blooms between the two. A number of the taller canes died back during our extended drought. I'm just happy that I've kept them alive. There is a young fellow on KZbin who bought an old farm in rainy rural Georgia, with a wisteria that was probably 100 years old. It had strangled mature oak trees and pulled down a barn. It seems the key to yours is that there is limited open soil nearby for it to spread, and you are diligent (and knowledgeable) about pruning it. The clockwise vining is interesting.

[@bunnyguinness]

Interesting! It does need managing ie pruning in many climates or as you say it becomes of forest proportions.🐇

[@johnsmith-ls4rc]

I have found turnbuckle wire strainers very useful for this type of project. Its virtually impossible to get wire fully taut by hand, making it look untidy. For a few pounds, they represent excellent value IMO. Thanks for providing these videos.

[@caramacdonald7954]

I have a question , we have dips in the ground where basement windows are , the dips are 5cm away from grass and we wondered if we could plant wisteria in the dips . My question because the dips are concrete how would the plant survive? Would we have to put soil in the dips first or connect to grass level to ground?

[@brandyjean7015]

I did not know about the clockwise vining. Is this true for other vining plants as well?

[@andresfresa123]

I have a wisteria that I planted 2 years and it did flowers the first year, this second year it grew allot and I didn’t flowered. The non flowering is because I need to trim? Thanks

[@ajsjsndj]

You need to prune every year, if it grew a lot then it means the energy was used in growing rather than flowering

[@tangerine6949]

One would have to have a very large garden indeed to allow older versions of wisteria to take root, but American wisteria (Wisteria frutescens) would be a good alternative.

[@bunnyguinness]

Will check this out, thanks. We often put standard wisterias in small gardens ie with trunk and smallish top around 1-2m. 🐇

[@bluesky7226]

@bunnyguinness Amethyst Falls is one variety that is smaller.

[@catmallin4671]

Could you plant it in a large pot?

[@gardengatesopen]

Don't they flower on old wood too? So pruning in the winter or early spring would cut all the fower buds.

[@bunnyguinness]

The proof of the pudding is in the picture, it flowers magnificently with this pruning regime. It does flower on both old and new wood but by spur pruning twice a year, do summer pruning in July/august in uk cutting the current years growth to 5 or 6 leaves after flowering and then back the same growth to two or three buds in jan or feb leaves enough old wood ie the ‘spurs’ on the plant which produce a lot of the flowers. Hope this helps 🐇

[@gardengatesopen]

@bunnyguinness Ahhh, Thank You. It blooms on both old AND new wood! I gladly stand corrected! Thanks for the info.

[@brandyjean7015]

Im trying to use Google to compute 400 mil & it gives .4 of an inch. So I'm confused.

[@bunnyguinness]

Thats wrong! 400mm is 15.7 inches , maybe we should put imperial measurements up on screen. 🐇

[@stephaniesharkey3538]

Pretty but too destructive It went under my brothers clapboards and costed big problems! !

[@elisaangel9789]

OMG, don't do it!! My neighbor's out-of-control, invasive wisteria is destroying everything it wraps around or boroughs through.

[@Deedee1987dee]

Sorry, but this was useless. There's no close up videos on youtube with people actually pruning and showing the buds, etc. I can look up how to plant, etc on ny own, but no one ever shows how the pruning should be done and the explanation is generally useless without a demonstration. 👎👎👎

[@dimadenis6575]

I have wisteria in my garden since 2010 and it's never been flowering 😢😢😢😢