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Very sad wisteria

kayforsterkayforster Posts: 6
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Hi - my 10-12 year old wisteria floribunda flowered earlier this year, albeit poorly (which I put down to strange weather in Spring), and then lost all its flowers and leaves over the course of about a week in early July. It now looks like it has given up the ghost and is completley bare stemmed :-( The wood feels really dry and there are no signs of any life whasoever. Do you think it has had it? What might have caused it to drop all signs of life so suddenly? Is there anything I could or should do other than waiting to see what happens next year? Thanks! 

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  • parrotfeather*parrotfeather* Posts: 167
    Try gently scraping a bit of bark to see if it is green underneath.  If it looks dead and brown cut out the brown bits down to something which looks alive and give it a really heavy watering and a seaweed feed.  If that doesn't work  after a month or so then yes it is dead.  I once lost a Wisteria like this and it turned out to be honey fungus but it could just be drought.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 28,827
    Last summer included heatwaves and drought which put stress on many plants and then a long winter followed with a very dry April so I suspect your wisteria is dying/has died of thirst.

    A picture would help to show us what it looks like and where it is planted.

    Try giving it a good soaking with about 15 litres of water poured slowly so it can soak in and b-not just run off.  Repeat daily for a week and then every other day for another week and then in any further hot, dry periods till the autumn rains start.

    If that doesn't help it recover and grow new foliage I'm afraid you'll have to start again.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • kayforsterkayforster Posts: 6



  • kayforsterkayforster Posts: 6
    @Obelixx
    here are some pics of the sorry creature :-( 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 28,827
    It looks squished into a tight corner with fencing, pots and a log pile all complying to provide either a rain shadow.   Try clearing all that away and watering copiously as suggested above but if there are no new shoots in a few weeks, it's probably a goner tho I would wait till next spring to be sure before digging it up, just in case.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • kayforsterkayforster Posts: 6
    thanks @Obelixx
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