Wisteria

[poliphilo]

I liked the way the wisteria billowed over the fence but Mary and my mother said it needed cutting back so that's what we did this afternoon- my mother and I- she sitting in her wheelchair with a pair of secateurs, me on my feet with a pair of shears. It was very hot and three quarters of an hour of it drained me. I postponed sweeping up the clippings until after the sun had gone down behind the trees.

Comments

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

You need to hack it back if you want it to bloom again. Mine blooms happily a couple months after each pruning -- since we're constantly snipping off the odd bit to keep it in bounds in our minuscule back garden, we almost always have at least one scape blooming.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Do you reckon then we'll get more flowers this year?

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

If you just did it, possibly not, but you should have more abundant bloom next year. Also, the response may depend on the species / cultivar. We have plain old W. frutescens.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've only just done it.

I've no idea what species this is. Probably nothing very exotic.