How To Winter Prune Wisteria

A How to Guide for Winter Pruning of Wisteria.
Produced by Zoe Loves Gardening
Presented in association with Busy Bee Gardening Services.
Jan/Feb 2017

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

For those of you wanting to see the flowers on my wisteria this spring, here you go! Enjoy!>> kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJC9e56YatSnqaM

[@relaxbreathesleep1127]

Just wanted to drop by and say that this was most helpful, very easy to follow and concise. Thank you Zoe.

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

Brilliant! Glad you found it useful 😊

[@mattavalon]

Really good brilliant video. Been doing wisteria pruning for years, but it’s good to reaffirm what I thought. Great work thanks

[@BayStreetMama]

Great video! Well illustrated and communicated.

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

Thank you so much 😊

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

Thank you for all the lovely comments on here about this video. Whilst I'm competent at Wisteria pruning, this was really a test run for me on videoing gardening tutorials. I hope to do more of these this year....including one showing the flowers in spring / summer, along with how to keep wisteria under control during the summer months when it puts on all that young whippy growth. Happy Gardening! Z.

[@emmah4521]

Thank you for a concise and informative video; exactly what I was looking for!

[@TheKevs007]

Thank you for your very clear video. I've looked at loads of wisteria-cutting films and yours is the best!

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

Thank you very much! Glad it helped! :o)

[@duffster2]

Great video. You made this very clear, Thanks, I have just tackled my Wisteria and followed your advice.

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

Thank you! Hopefully you'll be tackling it again shortly & over the next couple of years you'll see a real improvement to the structure of the plant & more flowers! :o)

[@jwchapma]

Very helpful - I'll be trimming my wisteria today and now know how best to do this. Thank you!

[@grahamthomas1429]

iam telling you now that was the best the very best doctorial I have ever seen on KZbin so clear so easy to understand thank you and thanks for your time 🌷🌷🐝🐞👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

Thank you Graham....glad it helped. :o)

[@lilylimpet]

Thanks for this video, was the best one I’ve found on what to cut and why! I just hacked off a load of my stems but I think I need to actually take off more!

[@leeler2410]

Thanks from cape cod

[@pedrocarranza3295]

hola es el video mas claro que he visto sobre la poda de wisterias. Gracias a tu video podre podar mi wisteria correctamente. La plante hace 2 años y nunca pode correctamente en invierno. siempre deje 5 a 6 llemas como se hace en verano. espero este año ver alguna flor. aqui faltan 2 meses para la primavera, asi que es el momento de podar. Muchas gracias

[@toufikdermache2530]

تعجبني كثيرا شجرة الوستارية(la glycine) ،عندي منها في حديقة منزلي وهي جميلة🌺🌸🍃🌿،شكرا على هذ الفيديو.

[@medibarratts4584]

Thank you, great tips

[@markharding6582]

Nicely done. I will be doing this tomorrow. Thanks

[@ruthsmith6920]

Thank you maam

[@Botisel]

Nice video.

[@jakemaddox76]

What if you have the wisteria grown out to how you want it. Seems if every year you cut back the whippy ends to five buds, then back to two or three in early spring, that eventually over several years it would just continue getting bigger. Can you keep cutting back to where it was previously?

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

Hi Jake, apologies for the slow reply. That’s pretty much the situation with my wisteria now. It’s a fair bit bigger than when I made this video. Realistically I don’t want it to get bigger but more flowers are always welcome. So what I found this year is some flower spurs looked dead - so I pruned them out. Also some whippet long shoots were originally left to fill gaps in the plants structure…. But these aren’t always needed once there’s more spurs on the plant so I pruned these out too. Essentially I’m doing just as you said… looking to keep it within bounds, health & producing as many flowers as possible. Hope this helps

[@proximusadiemus8731]

It would be great to show us a how Wisteria looks when she blooms now in spring :)

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

There is a video on my channel showing spring flowers on the wisteria 😁🌸

[@proximusadiemus8731]

@@zoelovesgardening8094 👍 I will check it out 😉

[@warrenwalker8170]

nice video -- (hide that trash can) 🚴‍♂

[@kathrynrobinson-burge7661]

Would also have been great to see an update when it flowers

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

Kathryn Robinson-Burge hi, there’s actually a pinned comment on this thread with a link to the update of spring flowers on the wisteria 😊

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

Here you go kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJC9e56YatSnqaM

[@Gigi-fv9ky]

Hi Zoe, I purchased a wisteria this summer, intending to train it much like yours, up against a wall of my siding-clad home with wires and turnbuckles. But, then I was given dire warnings about the wisteria growing underneath the siding and damaging my home, so I haven't planted it yet as I'm trying to figure out what to do. It certainly doesn't appear as if your wisteria is damaging your siding. Have you experienced that at all? Perhaps it's because you stay on top of the pruning? I am not going to be able to climb a ladder where I wanted to plant mine, it's on a slope and I'm very clumsy. So, I'd have to hire that done, which might not be as often as would be ideal. Bottom line is, do you think it's safe to plant my wisteria against my siding?

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

Hi Gayla, I think anything that has an air of mystery about it is considered tricky. I prune my wisteria twice a year. Once in winter & a lighter prune to remove whippy shoots through summer, after flowering & that's pretty much it. Because the house is wood cladded, we do get some shoots go underneath, but we remove these before they get too thick & take hold so haven't had any problems thankfully. They do put on a lot of growth over the spring / summer season though! Hence keeping them in check is good for you & your plant. I can't speak for your personal situation, but as you suggest, with some help, I'm sure it can be trained beautifully. And they do look stunning against a backdrop of a wall or fence.

[@idollove34]

how old is this wisteria?

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

When this video was made it was about 15/16 years old at this point. It’s now 22 years old ish & I plan to make an updated video this year to show how it’s changed

[@idollove34]

@@zoelovesgardening8094 Cool! Thank you for replying. I'll wait for your new video.

[@matthewbrooks289]

Zoe hi, my name is Gina my husbands account I am using. I have wisteria growing along my fence probably about 15feet along the fence, it so happens I have not pruned yet and it froze last week ( here in southern Missouri ) I have never pruned before and this was the first year it got like this so much leaves what do I do? Cut now? Boy any help.would.be great im truly at a loss thanks you very much... Gina

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

Hi Gina, Apologies for the late reply. I hope you cut back the wisteria! :) I'm based in the UK & our structural pruning for our wisteria is done some time between December & February normally - which are our coldest months. So pruning in the cold doesn't seem to be a problem for them....though I obviously don't know just how cold it gets there. Good luck x

[@thedivide3688]

The latest research says it doesn’t matter in general if you prune angled or flat.

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

Hi Randy, I’ve not seen any research with that info so cannot comment. I’ve always done angled cuts when pruning & get good result. Thank you for your comment Z.

[@weskarcher483]

Do you propogate the cuttings? Is this the Japanese or Chinese Wisteria?

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

This is Wisteria sinensis - the Chinese one. I have never tried to propagate the cuttings, but the original plant was tiny when I planted it & did nothing for the first 5 or 6 years. It'snow 15 years old.

[@moskana]

can i grow wisteria in pot outside in winter? or it will frozen?

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

It really depends where you are. They can be pot grown for sure. Just choose the biggest pot you can (minimum 45cm dia.), give it lots of compost & keep it watered through spring & summer. They are quite hardy but I would position it in a sunny spot next to a wall or fence as it will need support once it gets going.

[@peterwoodcock8464]

Is it too early to prune it now or early November or wait till December January

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

Hi Peter, I’ve personally never pruned it this early.... I’ve always waited until early in the new year. It’s obviously not a question of the plant withstanding the cold weather, as it’s a lot colder in January / February. My wisteria still has most of its leaves on it so I will wait. It’s much easier to see what to do when the leaves are off the plant & the branches are bare. Hope this helps, Z.

[@peterwoodcock8464]

@@zoelovesgardening8094 the leaves all came off mine about 2 weeks ago

[@bushveldkid7640]

Thanks for a great video. Please can you tell us where you are, the gardening zone? I am in Upstate New York and want to know how late winter pruning can take place.

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

@@bushveldkid7640 Hi I'm in South Central UK. So northern Hemisphere. According to Google I'm in zone 6-9. We have mild winters here - usually down to --10C at most, more normal -5C, and daytime temperatures of 0-4C through winter I would say. Hope that helps

[@Abortiz12]

Can I prune the wisteria in May?

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

Hi Abner, I wouldn't really recommend it unless it's in a really bad way. Wisteria typically flowers any time from April - Jun (in the Northern hemisphere) so you risk losing the flowers. I would wait until after it's flowered & then trim any wisps from this season to keep it under control & then do the big structural prune over Winter

[@kathrynrobinson-burge7661]

Hi Interesting but audio is poor.

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

Kathryn Robinson-Burge sorry about that. I worked with the limited equipment I have - which is my phone. But thank you for your interest 😊

[@jt.s.7418]

Couldn't hear

[@zoelovesgardening8094]

Joyce Todhunter Scroggins sorry.... I can only suggest playing around with your volume settings on whatever device you are viewing / listening on. Happy gardening 😊

[@etownsterguy9489]

Too much background noise. Very irritating.

[@kamallyons2035]

Could you please speak a bit loud…