A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2006 How do you do Wisteria??

I have heard the best is to layer them in the ground The problem is that mine is so tall it does not reach the ground :p

Does anyone know?? Has anyone had any success?
I do have seeds but I know it takes a long time to get them going (up to 15 years for the first flower)

I have tried cuttings as well and they did not work out at all!!
I do have a lot of people that wanted some!

rita, take some pots with soil in them, set them where the vines will reach, and layer them that way. the wisteria doesn't know what is ground and what is soil in a pot. it's all ground to it!

Thanks Jiffy I will try ... I am not sure it will reach though.

Maybe if I get some kind of shelf out there!!

Jiffy...
I wonder if a Wisteria cutting would root in soil? The lady at the nursery says no it won't. I bought a tree with a Wisteria twined around it and don't know if it should be tossed out or propagated somehow.

Rita, What about some hanging planters? You have it up on a trellis, don't you?

It will grow from a cutting it is just hard to do and sucess rate is less... I am doing that right now...I was trying to think of some way of doing that Triss... Maybe if I could get a board across... the thing about the trellis is it is leaning like// <---- this!! The vine is getting way to heavy...
I am trying this and other than that the vine is almost to the ground so I can easily put pots around and layer it that way!!

Well now THAT is not good. More weight is proabably not a good thing then!

This // is my biggest problem! I am going to have to cut it out of the trellis probably by next year for sure..then find a much better support for it!

4x4's!

well the rebar is not holding it down... Have to find something that looks nice too though... Something permanent.. steel concreted down.. :rolleyes:

Well I hope you fin something. There was a link somewhere that showed a HUGE wisteria and it was supported by a very cool trellis. Lemme see if I can find it.

This is not the one I was looking for but it is supposed to be the largest wisteria in the world.


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I have seen that one... I am hoping to grow it into tree form.. the support will have to be strong though.. and my yard is not that big!! this thing is taking over!

I could handle that problem!

Triss, thanks for posting that link...that is stunning, to say the least. Maybe mine will look like that in a hundred years. lol! I wish now I had planted it in the middle of the yard instead of near the fence. It's a constant battle keeping it out of the neighbors yard but they love it when it blooms.

Holy smokes! You really gotta love your Wisteria to let it take over your house!! That is AMAZING!

It sure is. One of these days I want a wisteria over a gazebo but never over the entire house! A well reinforced gazebo!

Rosie, which one do you have?
I have the Texas purple one, and it grows in a big clay pot.
It bloomed well this year.
I keep it as a giant bonsai.

Deborah, I don't know...it's just the old fashioned rambling lavender Wisteria. At one point, I was ready to chop it down because it had never bloomed. Found out after twelve years or longer that it was probably my fault for planting it under a giant Sycamore. Plus I pruned it way too often and was probably cutting off the buds for the next years blooms.

I didn't prune it for a year after I lost the Sycamore and VOILA...I had lots of bloom this year! Next year should be even better! The size of the plant is deceiving in this picture. It is about 4'ft tall, 8' spread. For comparison, the remainder of that Sycamore you can see to the right...that's 4' across. It looks a little "nekkid" at the time of bloom...foliage starts afterwards.
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Wow...now THATS a wisteria!

I planted mine in the fall of 2004 and it is growing well in its location, which gets morning to mid afternoon sun.
However it has yet to bloom (which I was told was normal for wisteria), except I had one very small cluster of flower buds about 3 weeks ago... Does that make any sense to anyone? I thought it was supposed to flower in spring.

Also when is the best time to prune it and how much pruning is best to get flowers?

I have an old mesh sattelite upside down ontop of the dog kennel. I stsrted a cutting of wisteria there. It has taken 3 yrs. to start growing, but finally getting there. Maybe I'll have some blooms this yr. Some of the cuttings had hair roots. It was hard to get them out of the ground. My sister-in-law was trimming hers. I'll try to get a pic. Be right back.
Diane

OK it's hard to make out right now. The morning glories are crowding it.
Here's a pic of inside the kennel. There's a tarp on top to keep rain out. (Though it leaks now) The satelite gives lots of shade.

I tried to resize it. But it went really small. Photobucket is being weird.

I know this is far behind the last post, but I live in the south and me and hubby find cutting back the Wisteria each year is very helpful, I wish my camera was not broken, we make a bush out of the old Wisteria in our yard. Between cutting it back and training the runners back into the plant it makes a wonderful bush for us.Hopefully before it blooms again I will have a new camera.

Hi there,

Can you grow a Wisteria from seed? And if so, when and how do you do this?

Paulien

Susan, I've never heard of anyone making a Wisteria into a bush, but what a neat idea! I started one from seed last year, but I gave it away because I've seen some massive Wisteria around here & just have no place for anything that gets so big!

Triss, did I give that to you? Maybe I want it back!