if you have no room train a wisteria as a standard in a pot, they look
fantastic.i got one off a friend who has trained it from a cutting it is now
5 foot high tied to a cane when it has reached 6 foot pinch out the tip,then
pinch out other growing tips.They are expensive to buy already as a standard
so its worth giving it a go.my friend has done this for a couple of years &
his is flowering.his is now a good sized standard.i also have one growing
over a copper pergola made of tubbing which is yet to flower.patients is
the key to growing wisteria if its not already flowering when you bought it.
keith
Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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"Stewart wrote in message ...
I,ve managed, after last years failure to grow a wisteria up a sunny
wall
supported by wire. [...]
I spent a couple of hours yesterday dealing with a neighbours that had
been
growing for a few years without pruning. It was in their loft, around
pipes,
electric and telephone wires, gutters, in the neighbours garage. I think
these plants are best grown by control freaks. :-) You can't leave
them
for a moment.

They are hard work but worth it.

A good case of "Don't blame the plant"! We don't always think far
enough ahead when planting, and forget to consider what a plant is
going to look like in its maturity. I've got some fine examples in my
own from-scratch garden, where I used shrubs and trees to get areas
looking cultivated early on, meaning to "edit some out" as they got
too big, and found that in some cases the proportions and views were
still all wrong even after I'd hardened my heart and performed the
extractions. "Garden as though you're going to live for ever", as they
say.

I managed to resist the almost overwhelming temptation to have a
wistaria, as even I could see that the design of my house -- too low,
too many windows -- just wasn't going to be compatible.

Mike.