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My Wisteria is flowering

EmptyheadtimeEmptyheadtime Posts: 366
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My Wisteria lost all its flower buds due to frost this year but it has decided to give me a late showing instead, just 4 flowers but better than none. Never had it flower in August before!

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  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    It's the weather. Ours has some flowers, too.
  • ChezNousChezNous Posts: 40
    We were lucky with the first flush then the second flush is still going despite the heatwaves. Not sure how long it will be before we can prune? Enjoy while they last!
    Late to gardening .... @cheznousgarden
  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    There are lots flowering around me at the moment. I think they can flower around this time in a normal year as well.
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    We often get a second flush on ours around about July/August. Never as many flowers as the Spring show and often smaller. A lovely bonus if you did loose the first to frost.

    We just snip odd bits off as and when we need to keep it in check and then do a “proper” prune in the late Autumn. It always flowers really well
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    We always get a second flush in July/August.   The spring show has long racemes of lilac purple and white flowers.   The later flush is shorter and a deeper shade of purple.

    mAs both plants are now too large to count every shoot back to 7 buds I simply prune off any long whippy stems that are exceeding the general shape and tidy back any thicker stems that are drooping down and starting to scrag us when we walk past.

    The winter prune in February consists of removing any stems trying to get up behind gutters or shading the windows too much.  Easy to do in winter when it's bare and we can see each stem and branch.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    same here, second flowering this year
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