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... the WISTERIA Season ... 2019 ...

Janie BJanie B Posts: 894
Can we have a thread to collect everyone’s wonderful wisteria photos (and pruning tips etc)...? I’ll post pics of mine later, when the sun comes out...
Lincolnshire
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,152


    Our two - inherited so no credit other than annual pruning regime and feeding since we arrived.   The top one faces east and is against the garage wall.  The bottom one faces south and is against the annex wall (ex pig house apparently.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 4,850
    My Alba is nowhere near ready to flower, I'll be lucky to have some by the end of May.🙄
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,152
    It seems the white ones flower later here too and in Belgium the purple ones didn't get going till early May.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 4,850
    As my plant is only a year old @Obelixx I'm trying to look after it and not expect too much too soon while it settles in, but I am impatient. 🙂
  • Janie BJanie B Posts: 894
    edited April 2019
    Here’s our wisteria... about 12 years old. Looking the best it’s looked, although it looks a little weedy compared to @Obelixx's amazing specimens! 




    Lincolnshire
  • chirpy999chirpy999 Posts: 18
    Mine has no flowers and has only just come to life. When can I expect flowers, its about 8 years old.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,152
    Are you doing the correct pruning in summer and winter?   This helps promote flower bud formation as opposed to just foliage.

    When we inherited ours they had been neglected a few years so there were shoots heading off under gutters, heading for roof tiles and also growing beyond the bounds of their buildings.   It was autumn so easy enough to see what needed cutting back completely as soon as all the leaves fell.   

    Since then it's had the pruning as advised on the RHS website and an annual feed.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,498
    Went to RHS Wisley yesterday and their Wisteria are in various stages from just a few blooms to nothing much at all yet,but all look ready to go any time soon!
    Give them a bit more time!
    The Wisteria on the Wisley house was the most advanced in the whole garden (right of photo).

    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 7,900
    ..just pushing this up... I don't have Wisteria but it's nice to see others.. 
    ..love that Wisley picture.. the cut out lawn path reminds me of the yellow brick road in Wizard of Oz... for some reason..
    East Anglia, England
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