It's lovely! I have two wisterias which are nearly as big as that and I find that I need to trim back excess growth on a weekly basis rather than just the twice a year which someone mentioned earlier. The "hard" pruning is done in February or March and I leave those shoots which I want to train further along, and remove any excess. The new shoots this year are growing at the usual (astonishingly fast) rate and if I were to leave things alone the windows would soon be covered over!
If you haven't already got somebody to look after things for you, you'll need to get a very stable ladder -and consider having somebody to be there for safety's sake. It's very important not to let the shoots grow up into the roof area or guttering and can be a big job to do. Luckily I have a bungalow, so don't need to climb far up the ladder - apart from one gable end wall.
In Belgium - cooler and wetter - I could get away with the twice yearly pruning and then just shorten extra growth that headed where I didn't want it. Here, much older, established plants with serious trunks and branches, I can find myself doing a trim whenever I pass. The test for one is - can I get in the door without ducking and see out of the window and, for the other, can I get past the ends of that wall without having my hair pulled or getting a drip down my neck if it's raining.
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It's lovely! I have two wisterias which are nearly as big as that and I find that I need to trim back excess growth on a weekly basis rather than just the twice a year which someone mentioned earlier. The "hard" pruning is done in February or March and I leave those shoots which I want to train further along, and remove any excess. The new shoots this year are growing at the usual (astonishingly fast) rate and if I were to leave things alone the windows would soon be covered over!
If you haven't already got somebody to look after things for you, you'll need to get a very stable ladder -and consider having somebody to be there for safety's sake. It's very important not to let the shoots grow up into the roof area or guttering and can be a big job to do. Luckily I have a bungalow, so don't need to climb far up the ladder - apart from one gable end wall.