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Help! Established Wisteria looking limp, brown and decidedly dead!

EmeraldandZoldEmeraldandZold Posts: 9
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We have an established Wisteria on the front of house. It normally flowers beautifully this time of year, but all the leaves have fallen off and the flowers/buds are looking very limp, brown and decidedly dead. Could it be to do with the frost we had at the end of March or has it a disease?  And what action should I take? Do I leave it to drop naturally or remove all the affected foliage. I have attached some photographs. I hope you can help me try to save it! Many thanks.



How it looked previously;

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    My first thought is that it’s succumbed to lack of water ... a couple of dry summers and a dry late winter/spring has left the ground very dry a few feet down where the wisteria’s roots are ... and the paving all around it will have really cut down on the amount of rain penetrating the surface.  
    Flowers make huge demands on a plant for water. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • EmeraldandZoldEmeraldandZold Posts: 9
    Makes sense! Would you recommend leaving it be and just focusing on watering or would you prune back?
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Have you had a frost recently?
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Good point @Hostafan1 ✅ 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • EmeraldandZoldEmeraldandZold Posts: 9
    There was frost at the end of March
  • Dave HumbyDave Humby Posts: 1,145
    That would have been well before the blooms came so I don’t think that is the reason. Have you any signs of new growth? You would be seeing the start of the ‘runners’ now as the blooms finish and the foliage and new shoots take over. 
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