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wisteria....
my friend has a wisteria, which bloomed very well last year...this year no flowers except one or two at the bottom...whats wrong?
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"solaara" wrote my friend has a wisteria, which bloomed very well last year...this year no flowers except one or two at the bottom...whats wrong? Once your Wisteria has extended to the furthest point you want it you then prune back all other shoots to two buds just after leaf fall (Christmas week for me). This has to be done annually. Any shoots that extend too far during the growing season can simply be pruned back to a few buds and I do this a few times every season to keep ours tidy. These then get a final severe prune to two buds (don't be tempted to leave more!) during the winter like all other shoots. What you are after are long permanent stems as a framework with side shoots all along these stems that eventually look a bit like a stags antlers (or fruiting spurs if you are a fruit grower) and it is from these you get the flowers. -- Regards Bob In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... "solaara" wrote my friend has a wisteria, which bloomed very well last year...this year no flowers except one or two at the bottom...whats wrong? Once your Wisteria has extended to the furthest point you want it you then prune back all other shoots to two buds just after leaf fall (Christmas week for me). This has to be done annually. Any shoots that extend too far during the growing season can simply be pruned back to a few buds and I do this a few times every season to keep ours tidy. These then get a final severe prune to two buds (don't be tempted to leave more!) during the winter like all other shoots. What you are after are long permanent stems as a framework with side shoots all along these stems that eventually look a bit like a stags antlers (or fruiting spurs if you are a fruit grower) and it is from these you get the flowers. -- Regards Bob In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London The above is all good stuff and will certainly help to get a good crop of flowers, but in my experiance once a wisteria starts flowering it carries on unless something happens and I suspect that the something this year may have been frost in spring, you will find in a given area some wisterias completely fine and others debudded just depends on their precise location. The plants themselves are of course bone hardy so gardeners are often mystified as to what has happened especially if the buds were small so you don't see them go all limp! -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs) |
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"Charlie Pridham" added... after "Bob Hobden" wrote "solaara" wrote my friend has a wisteria, which bloomed very well last year...this year no flowers except one or two at the bottom...whats wrong? Once your Wisteria has extended to the furthest point you want it you then prune back all other shoots to two buds just after leaf fall (Christmas week for me). This has to be done annually. Any shoots that extend too far during the growing season can simply be pruned back to a few buds and I do this a few times every season to keep ours tidy. These then get a final severe prune to two buds (don't be tempted to leave more!) during the winter like all other shoots. What you are after are long permanent stems as a framework with side shoots all along these stems that eventually look a bit like a stags antlers (or fruiting spurs if you are a fruit grower) and it is from these you get the flowers. The above is all good stuff and will certainly help to get a good crop of flowers, but in my experiance once a wisteria starts flowering it carries on unless something happens and I suspect that the something this year may have been frost in spring, you will find in a given area some wisterias completely fine and others debudded just depends on their precise location. The plants themselves are of course bone hardy so gardeners are often mystified as to what has happened especially if the buds were small so you don't see them go all limp! Too true, forgot that one, our's has never been touched by frost (it's on a S. facing wall of our house) but one that is free standing in the open at the Savill Garden a couple of miles away is often damaged so badly all the spring flowers are lost. All they are left with is the odd summer flowers one gets. One thing I've thought of since I wrote the above, was your friends wisteria shaded by anything last summer? Has a tree grown? Neighbour built an extension? They don't like shade and to flower well they need sun, as much as possible. -- Regards Bob In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London |
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