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Wednesday, January 29. 2020

Winter pruning of Wisteria - now or never

Doing mine now. Last chance, and easy to do if your August pruning was done correctly.


I am not as careful as this guy. If I were that careful, I would have a Wisteria jungle 




Posted by Bird Dog in Gardens, Plants, etc. at 16:53 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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From the lead-in music to the cut-away shots and calm demeanor of the host, this was very reminiscent of the BBC show "Gardener's World"

Quite useful having the telly tell you every Wednesday what you might want to be getting up to on the weekend in order to keep things thriving.

Perhaps that's why my garden is so boring in the US. No-one is telling me what to do when.
#1 DOuglas2 on 2010-03-07 23:28 (Reply)
Serious gardeners keep a gardening and yard work calendar, with when and what.
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2010-03-08 07:30 (Reply)
Whenever I see or hear the word wisteria I am immediately catapulted back (a la Shelly Berman's game of Nostalgics) to The Hudson's Bay Company store in Winnipeg Manitoba circa 1970 and my great enjoyment watching the "Afternoon Tea Train To Wisteria Halt." It was a marvelous contraption conceived and built by Rowland Emett who built the machines for the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The "Train" is, I believe at the Ontario Science centre in Toronto.

All about Rowland here...http://www.mech.mcmaster.ca/~nyet/emett/

The Train here...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7ciQ8bPy2M
But the video doesn't do it justice.
#2 Capt. Craig on 2010-03-08 12:13 (Reply)
You want Wisteria--HERE is WISTERIA!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyqi7vUHqNI
#3 another one on 2011-03-23 07:59 (Reply)
I've been out pruning my fruit trees with my new little Giant Ladder. Since my orchard is on a slope, it was always a problem to use a standard step ladder. I would have to use concrete blocks to raise up the lower feet. It was a near-death experience on a 12' ladder.
#4 snopercod on 2020-01-29 20:11 (Reply)
We bought a home with a large pergola six months ago. When going through before buying it I noticed the pergola covered in wisteria was leaning severely. When we bought the house the wisteria was gone, had been cut. It had gotten so large it was pulling the pergola over. It was beautiful and blocked the sun to provide shade on an otherwise hot patio. It turns out it wasn't just the wisteria, over time the huge cedar posts had gotten weak contributing to the lean of the pergola. Wish the wisteria could have been saved. I have heard it can destroy buildings if not contained regularly.
#5 JC on 2020-01-29 22:26 (Reply)
It's pulling over my post light - I had to put in guy wires last year to keep it vertical.

But the fragrance, walking past it on the front walk makes it all worth while.

I don't have a rigorous pruning program like this guy, but if I don't whack it back at least 2-3 times per year, it will start pulling down my oak trees too.
#5.1 Aggie on 2020-01-30 00:59 (Reply)
To me Wisteria is a WEED, it is impossible to fully remove. The latest excrescences will be cut off at near ground level in a month or so and the stubs treated with full strength roundup or possibly an even more lethal weed killer in hopes of getting the roots. In an area I cleaned up about 10 yrs ago, it is now invading treetops of 20' trees with wisteria stems up to an inch in diameter.

I have also declared war on the nandina (about 1400 bushes pulled out of an acre) and cherry laurel, another weed.
#6 sch on 2020-01-30 00:11 (Reply)
Wisteria inevitably always makes me wistful for all those years I lived in England.
#7 JJM on 2020-01-30 16:18 (Reply)

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