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Wisteria

Sizeyuk1Sizeyuk1 Posts: 125
Can I prune my Wisteria hard, this year it has not produced many flowers but masses of leaves and long trailing shoots, if so when.

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    There is a system to pruning wisteria to promote flowering.  You need to shorten all the new, long, whippy tendrils in July and then do another tweak in Jan/Feb.

    It's all explained here - https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=242 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Sizeyuk1Sizeyuk1 Posts: 125
    I want to cut it back quite hard as its got very big will it be ok
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I expect so if you're careful about shaping and leave it some greenery so it doesn't go into shock.   The foliage is its food factory after all.

    Mine are growing like the clappers - and flowering again - and I find I have to trim bits off nearly every day to stop myself being bushwhacked at one doorway from the house.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Sizeyuk1Sizeyuk1 Posts: 125
    Thank you I will do it next month.
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