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wisteria
My inner city front garden is about 10 foot square. I think that is about 3 metres. For the past 42 years I have just cut it or had it cut a couple of times a year.
I would like to plant a wisteria but I keep getting told that they are too big and too difficult to prune.
I hope someone can tell me of a species that will suit my little front garden.
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I have no experience re. wisteria, but I have seen some stunning mature specimens in pots, so it can be done. It would also depend on the conditions of your front garden - aspect and amount of light.
Hopefully a wisteria expert here will be able to advise, but if you google - wisteria in a pot - there are some fine examples.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Thankyou so much for the replies. I was not aware that it was a climber!!!!
The one you have sent a photo of is splendid.
I thought it was a small tree. Back to the drawing board I think.
Thank you both
It doesn't have to be a climber if you don't want it to...
I saw one on a garden prog a while back that had a twisted trunk the size of a 50yr old oak but it was no taller than 6ft and in full flower was breathtaking - grown as a small tree
You'd need to keep on top of the pruning of course, but if you keep it small it'll be easy.
If you google - wisteria tree - and look at the Images the trees are stunning (but I'm sure some images have had a little help)
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Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I've seen them grown as a sort of Bonsai standard, also as three stems plaited together to form a trunk which is strong enough to support a 'head' of top growth like a rose or fuchsia standard. You can keep pruning it to keep it from developing its climbing ambitions
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You need the variety 'Amethyst Falls'... it's an American hybrid and much shorter than the usual, at about 3 metres... easily managed and blooms when young. Some report the scent as being rather odd...
Thank you all for the pictures. Whilst looking at the pictures and looking them up I came across Lavatera tree mallow which I think might be easier for me to groom and a row of 3 or 4 might look quite splendid under the window.
I will now procrastinate.