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07/04/2008, 20:56 Barbel Bob Joined on 13/05/2007 Dept 24 Posts 158 Wisteria advice please Hi All, We cut our wisteria back quite a lot in february, it had not been touched for years and years and was badly overgrown..........problem now is it looks dead ......My husband says there impossible to kill and it will start coming back to life soon! I noticed some houses today that already have flowers on their Wisteria mine hasn't even got a leaf! I never cut any of the main thick branches, just the wild thin ones that had grown 4ft deep high over the pergola. Should it be full with leaves by now with flowers? Julie    Report

08/04/2008, 0:54 JayJay Joined on 22/02/2005 La La Land Posts 1,837 Re: Wisteria advice please Hi Julie, if you left some buds on, then it should spring back to life. friendship warms the heart & heals the soul    Report

08/04/2008, 8:53 Vindolanda Joined on 28/01/2007 Orne Posts 12 Re: Wisteria advice please Hi, It should be ok. Ours is starting to flower now and the leaves will come later. It is ok to prune in Feb which is when the experts recommend the second prune of the year is done. Your first pruning for a while might set it back a bit but I agree with OH you cannot kill them!        Report

08/04/2008, 9:11 dragonrouge Joined on 08/02/2008 Posts 112 Re: Wisteria advice please Wisterias are tough as old boots they come from China and Japan and in the mountains as well.   Normally flowers first leaves after. Pruning regime cut back in July August to five buds of this years growth.  Then to force flowers in Jan/Feb cut back again the years growth to two buds.    Report

08/04/2008, 11:52 Barbel Bob Joined on 13/05/2007 Dept 24 Posts 158 Re: Wisteria advice please Thanks to all! No sign of any life yet, just what i left in Feb........I will await with abated breath  Julie    Report

08/04/2008, 11:57 nectarine Joined on 02/08/2007 Lot-et-Garonne Posts 240 Re: Wisteria advice please We hacked one back to the roots a couple of years ago, and even dug down and pulled out the roots as it was growing too close to the house.  There was nothing for over a year and I thought I had successfully dug it up .... but then there was a shoot, then a stem and then leaves - even though it was only about ten inches high!!!  So I hacked it out again and the same thing happened.  So don't worry yourself too much .... it may take a few months but I suspect your wisteria will flourish again. If you look like your passport picture, then you probably need the holiday.    Report

08/04/2008, 22:33 Barbel Bob Joined on 13/05/2007 Dept 24 Posts 158 Re: Wisteria advice please Thanks Nectarine, The wisteria is called Hysteria in our house..........................  but thats another story!!! I will give it a while and not give up on it! Julie    Report

09/04/2008, 11:32 Belle Joined on 05/03/2008 Posts 135 Re: Wisteria advice please I think I'm about to disgree with the 'you can't kill wisteria' therory, I'm afraid you can, we planted ours towards the end of 2005, it was loverly when we bought it from the garden center, but as winter approached, it did the normal lose the flowers thing, and we have been waiting for it to flower again ever since, this will be the third season of expecting this to be the one, there has not even been a leaf, so at the end of this year we will admit defeat,and dig it up.    Report

09/04/2008, 19:16 seb47 Joined on 02/01/2005 Lot et Garonne Posts 146 Re: Wisteria advice please Julie - sorry to be doing this little hijack of your original question, but I thought you wouldn't mind as there is some good advice above. My question - I bought and planted a healthy looking wisteria today from Leclerc. It's about 2 metres high and has lots of side shoots with leaves. Reading the above replies, am I right in thinking I've missed the flowers this years as the leaves are growing? Cheers, Sue    Report

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