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#Thuglife in the back garden! - Comments, thoughts, critique!

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  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    So yes it looks like a mature Wisteria that has been chopped down. I would cut those two stems that head off into the laurel personally and then just cut them out of it, unless you want the wisteria growing that direction. The other stems going up the outbuilding direction will soon firm up into more substantial wood. 
    You could attach it to the fascia boards, but before too long it will probably start damaging it so I would put some metal eyes into the wall and have a tensioned wire to train it around. Also keep an eye on whip stems that get between your gutter and into your tiles and just generally keep it in check. Wisteria are beautiful, but they take a bit of controlling to stop them running riot
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Do not attach wisteria to your fascia board!!   Give it its own support.  It wants to be like this


    Mine is old and woody and self supporting but we do have to keep cutting stems that try and dive under the roof tiles and gutter and pull them off. 
    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
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