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Have I killed my wisteria?

juliesmith2000VtdOXFcpjuliesmith2000VtdOXFcp Posts: 3
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I bought a little wisteria with grand ideas of training him up my pergola and much to my delight he has doubled in height in just a few weeks  he had three vines growing off him and I was too eager I think by wrapping those 3 vines around the wire I put on the fence  
It destroyed the little vines, they were clearly too young to be forced onto wire :( I had the smart idea of chopping off the damaged ends of all three vines and since then there has been no growth and the leaves closest to the three vines are browning slightly  

did I kill the whole thing by doing that?? Will he ever recover? Any advice greatly appreciated!

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    looks fine to me, if not a bit thirstly. LOTS of water and it'll be fine

    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Yes ... that just needs lots and lots of water ... a couple of buckets full every other day until the end of september ... saved 'grey' water from the bath, shower, rinsing veg etc will do.

    The area near to a fence or wall is always drier than the rest of the garden ... in this drought it's much worse ... everything is struggling, even established plants ... all we can do is water with what ever we can.

     :)

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





  • juliesmith2000VtdOXFcpjuliesmith2000VtdOXFcp Posts: 3
    Oh great! I thought I’d killed it by chopping off its vines and it would never recover!! I’ll get the water on it, thanks so much 😁
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I would reconsider the wires. As the wisteria develops its stems will engulf and swallow the wires.  Better to give it a wooden structure to which it can be tied and which can later be removed when the wood hardens up.   Our two mature ones are now free standing with trunks like a tree and solid branches.

    Photos from winter so you can see the structure.





    And inspring so you can see what happens when they flower:





    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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