If you want the above in early summer then now’s the time to get up the ladder and prune the wisteria. Here we start with a big tangle.
Trace the long wippy growth from last summer back towards the main framework of the plant. Make an angled cut, pruning back to a couple of fat buds leaving a spur of about three or four inches.
A couple of hours later and the winter prune is done. Depending on your soil you may want to beef up last autumn’s mulch with some light, garden compost to promote spring growth. Now leave the rest to nature and hopefully it will develop like this.
Wisteria floribunda after its winter prune.
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Beautiful wisteria.
Thank you. This is its eighth year, but it was a graft and not from seed.
I planted a wisteria years ago when I lived in Sunbury-on-Thames; love to go back now and see the wonderful display when the garden is “open”.
For me that is the best part of gardening – planting for the long term, but you have to have faith that future owners/caretakers will not grub it up.
Yes, it’s nice to think we may have left a legacy in our gardens.
I wonder if I need to do the same for my Clematis… but I’ve never been good at pruning. 😦
It all depends what type of Clematis you have, but in the end no pruning is fine as nature still flowers without our intervention just not quite so prolifically.
Stunning wisteria…I optimistically planted some last year but after this winter we’ll have to see…
I’ve seen it’s been very cold this winter from your posts, but if you covered the roots last autumn with a good 6 inches of mulch, fingers crossed, there should be green shoots in the spring.
Our TV news is reporting storms and floods in UK. Annoyingly, they are not specific with the location. Hope you are faring well. The wisteria will be stunning.
Here in East Anglia we are escaping the worst, but my sister lives in Devon and it’s pretty bad. They are lucky they are on a hill. She spoke to my father this afternoon and said the rain has been so heavy for so long and now with the wind they’ve got several leaks. We all feel so sorry for the folks who have had there homes flooded.