Kate Brown wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, David Rance wrote
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 keith kent wrote:
Hello All , i have a Wisteria that is growing on a pergola it has been
there for 5 years , it faces west and is established and flowering size
. After the hot weather we had end of May it suddenly looked like it
wilted ,every leaf.So i gave it a good soaking but it hasn`t picked up
and the leafs are starting to dry up .
I have a Wisteria standard in a oak barrel which is only about 3m away
which is totally fine .
Any ideas folks ,i live in Nottingham ,UK

Not as such. But I have a wisteria (grown from seed actually so it has
never flowered but I'm eternal optimist!) whose buds started swelling
in spring but never burst into leaf. A week or two ago I noticed it
throwing out shoots from the main stem. I don't think that it was frost
that got it.

I had another one against a wall of a stone house. A couple of years
ago we had the wall repointed during the winter and the builders
carefully laid the wisteria on the ground while they did the work and
then put it back. It died.

So what I am saying is that I have found wisteria to be very touchy
about how they are treated. Maybe, if you leave yours long enough, it
will shoot out again.



Would you like ours? It grew all over our west-facing front door,
filled all the gutters but never flowered, so we cut it down - this was
three years ago - and planted a rose instead. The rose is fine, but the
pesky wisteria pops up all over the place and is proving impossible to
discourage. We don't want to poison it as there are so many other plants
in the bed, but it really is a nuisance, and simply won't die. I
wouldn't mind so much if it had flowered once or twice, but it never
produced anything other than wavy and invasive foliage. The roots must
still be all under the flowerbed and paving.

Cut down the stem/trunk(s) to a few cm above soil level. Drill out holes
from the top down in each trunk and pour in stump killer. It will take some
time to work, but should do the job eventually.

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Jeff