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Thank you, Gail, for reminding me how much I still have to get done I had never before heard about pruning the Wisteria roots to encourage flowers, but after 20 years mine seems to manage without me having to dig down.
So, pictures of dripping blooms would be a spring boquet for us on the forum! I love the wisteria, just don't have the yard/room for it's vastness. So I enjoy seeing others.
Boquet, bouquet, bokay...
what did I do wrong? I went through the spellchecker....
bokay looks b okay to me Gail.
I've decided you have magic soil Terry. It doesn't seem to need feeding to make good bloom !
David has a neat way of keeping his wisteria behaving. Something about growing it in a sunken pot .... ??????
BEHAVE ?!?!? You've got to be kidding!
Where did it go??? this is a new trick that the old version never did before! If it is stil an X instead of a picie tomorrow, pls post it again Caro. Also, see if you can shrink the pixel size and take a little off the dimension size in hopes of that making a diff , thanks oxoxom
Really weird, the pic was there last night.
This is my old farmhouse with my ancient wisteria growing across the tops of the oak trees, across the top of the 2-story house, and all over the lawn.
That's so pretty Caro - but it is also the only reason why there is not one in this garden - I'd have to keep it trained as a standard to fit it in. I so love it tho. Our first house had one growing over a lovely arbor. Oh the perfume!
Do you cut yours back only once a year, Terry, right after the bloom ? I know that cutting new growths off too late in the year will deplete the next spring's flower crop, which is why some folks think theirs "won't bloom".
I cut mine all year Maggie, it's the only way I can contain it, cutting back to two new buds actually encourages it to bloom. Yours looks magnificent Carolyn, mine will never be allowed enough growth to get that many flowers, also mine always seems to flower as the leaves are unfurling.
Ah then, that's the trick - modest snips that leave some of the new stem - to produce even more new shoots. It must be when folks cut it back too drastically to the old wood, late in the year, that ruins the next bloom season.
No matter how you cut it, it's too big for me. But I would bring a chair and sit next to it for a day with a good book if anyone wants to volunteer a place when it's blooming.
You might like my way of dealing with those urges Gail - I wallpaper my screen with places I'd like to be!
I noticed our articles were side by side in the paper today. Isn't that sweet Gailfriend?
how funny, I just sent you a personal email about the articles! So instead of paying someone to fix those weeping windows of mine, I should put up pixes of Tuscany & English gardens! Thanks, Maggie. Much cheaper!