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My wisteria has died after 20 years...or has it?

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  • Bill_and_BenBill_and_Ben Posts: 161
    @Obelixx - your is amazing!! This is the best mine has looked in 20 years! I have wisteria envy now!

    My location: Histon, near Cambridge, UK


  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I think yours is lovely.

    Can't take the credit for ours as I have no idea how old they are and this is our 5th spring here.   We have had to do some remedial pruning to get them out from under gutters and I did a lot of re-shaping on the larger one last year but their vigour is, I think, entirely down to being well-established and also not having harsh winters.

    They are certainly much more densely flowered than the one I had in my last garden in Belgium.
    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
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I think yours look lovely @Bill_and_Ben but just for ease of maintenance I would take both sides down to say one strand across the top of the ground floor window. It looks as though you could then train the left hand side across along the top of the French doors.
    It's easy then to keep it pruned for more flowers.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Bill_and_BenBill_and_Ben Posts: 161
    My wisteria is now doing its usual growing up through the deck but still no sign of growth above. A local friend has suggested that the graft has failed. Has anyone had any experience of this?

    If this is the case, presumably if we grow it again from scratch from the shoots coming through the deck (somehow rerouting them) it would be the 'wrong' wisteria?!



    My location: Histon, near Cambridge, UK


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