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09/04/2008, 19:49 Russethouse Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 10,084 Re: Wisteria advice please Belle, it sounds to me that your plant never got established, BB s obviously was and probably has a huge root system. As for the just purchased plant, I suspect you would see the forming seed pods if it had flowered but the nursery may have cut them off. www.quimperclub.org 99    Report

09/04/2008, 20:27 Cathy Joined on 07/03/2006 Mostly near Bordeaux; Sometimes near Bristol Posts 1,955 Re: Wisteria advice please I've become a wisteria expert because of a family house that has wisteria all over it.  A couple of years ago, I lived there for 18 months.  The wisteria was 70 years old: the head gardener remembered helping to plant it (yes, the head gardener is still alive aged 95 and attends the garden every day). It had not been cut back hard for over 20 years, only trimmed, and so had become very gnarled and looked unsightly in the winter.  The gardeners took it upon themselves to cut it back to 2 ft of the roots.  It was a very scary day for me as I was worried about the family feedback. The year after it grew back to a height of 10 ft with no flowers, which what the gardeners said would happen.  I did not get any shoots from it until April and initially the buds were so tiny as to be almost invisible.  When the sprung into life, it was rampant.  We are now reaping the benefits of the drastic pruning with verdant growth.  From now on, every year it will be pruned properly - as Vindolanda and DragonRouge have suggested. What strikes me from your posts, Barbel, is that you have not cut back the old wood.  I would check on some websites about this.  When the shoots start coming, you have to choose which ones you wish to train.  You are unlikely to get flowers this year. I agree with RussetH that Belle's newly planted wisteria did not get established. Here is a link to the Roayl Horticultural Society site: http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0600/wisteria.asp   Cathy ----- Your children won't remember you ironing their pyjamas but they will remember you reading them a bedside story.    Report

10/04/2008, 8:19 dragonrouge Joined on 08/02/2008 Posts 121 Re: Wisteria advice please I must now eat my own words in that in last Sunday's heavy frost in the Vendee it wiped out lots and lots of Wisterias!  It was a sad sight to drive through Fontenay le Comte yesterday.  However some long established wisteria escaped the carnage. My early Jersey royals and under cover at that did not! rdgs    Report

10/04/2008, 9:16 Belle Joined on 05/03/2008 Posts 140 Re: Wisteria advice please Taken on board your comments R H thanks for that , so do you think that we should plant wisteria at this time of year, so it goes through the summer before the winter hits home, so its established before then. Belle    Report

10/04/2008, 10:05 Russethouse Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 10,084 Re: Wisteria advice please Hi Belle, I forgot something, you may have to wait a couple of years for small wisterias to flower, they do better once they are established, some harder hearted gardeners than me cut the flowers off on the first year or two to allow the plant to put its energys into getting established. I think if you read the RHS link Cathy gave and give the right conditions and keep an eye on it, I would plant it. I rarely worry about planting times now, container grown plants have come on in leaps and bounds. www.quimperclub.org 99    Report

10/06/2008, 12:17 Barbel Bob Joined on 13/05/2007 Dept 24 Posts 165 Re: Wisteria advice please Hi, I eventually got 4 flowers, lower down on the truck which was not cut, so i live in hope for lots more next year!!!!! Then the leaves came so i did not kill it afterall!!!! However i have just noticed that there a small black spots on lots of the leaves, very small black flies??????? Can any one recommend on what i need to buy to spray it with. Thanks again! I tell my husband this forum is like having a best freind who knows all the answers!!!!!! Its the first place i turn when i need to know something! Julie    Report

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