How To Plant, support and Train Wisteria PLUS Breaking out Concrete for Climbers!

Рет қаралды 20,092

Жыл бұрын

In this video partly filmed 20 years ago Bunny breaks out concrete and plants a wisteria in her garden.
You can see it 20 years on, and how it changes the whole character of the building. Bunny and Richard fix support wires into the stonework for training the plant and Bunny tells you how to train it.
#concrete #trainingclimbers

Пікірлер: 26

@triciadesigns 11 ай бұрын

I absolutely love your work and am trawling through all the posts I can find. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

@elisaangel9789 Жыл бұрын

Wisteria is definitely a reliable flowerer. That's how I can track where the neighbor's wisteria has wandered. They are pretty flowers. In my region, wisteria is invasive, so anyone adding it to his or her yard will have extra pruning to do to keep it under control.

@virtualcircuit 2 ай бұрын

Bunny i just want to say i love these older videos. And that along with that wisteria looking amazing after 20 years the same could be said for yourself! I've got a well developed wisteria on an eastern facing sandstone wall that hasn't been trained properly. So am looking at hard pruning and starting again.

@carmenbailey1560 Жыл бұрын

Wow, my husband and I just dug mine out of my garden. It was such a big job, I was shocked to see just how big the roots got and just how far they went. I had I dug out because it’s a lot of plant to take care of and I knew it was beyond my capabilities. We have had many beautiful site with long mauve flowers. Thanks for sharing yours. 👍❤️😊 9:17

@arianaconnor8208 Жыл бұрын

Thanks bunny , great and timely information for me

@braydenblack763 8 ай бұрын

There are two types of Wisteria that actually do wrap counterclockwise. They are Chinese Wisteria (Wisteria Sinensis) and American Wisteria (Wisteria Frutescens). The one shown is this video is likely Japanese Wisteria (Wisteria Floribunda). Both Japanese and Chinese Wisteria can be invasive if not properly maintained. American Wisteria is much less aggressive, but still requires frequent pruning.

@GorgeousB1986 Ай бұрын

Very useful video, thanks. I read on a gardening website that wisteria should be planted 90cm away from the wall you want it to climb. I've planted mine about 40cm away as 90 looked way too far away. Should I plant it closer, as even 40cm looks too far? Yours looks like it is right next to the wall.

@SpanishEclectic Жыл бұрын

Wisteria is beautiful, but how it grows really varies from place to place. I have a purple one, and a Japanese white (Issae, I think it is) in large resin containers. I have to water them weekly during summer and fall here in Southern California. They are only 5 feet tall, and have maybe 30 blooms between the two. A number of the taller canes died back during our extended drought. I'm just happy that I've kept them alive. There is a young fellow on KZfaq who bought an old farm in rainy rural Georgia, with a wisteria that was probably 100 years old. It had strangled mature oak trees and pulled down a barn. It seems the key to yours is that there is limited open soil nearby for it to spread, and you are diligent (and knowledgeable) about pruning it. The clockwise vining is interesting.

@bunnyguinness Жыл бұрын

Interesting! It does need managing ie pruning in many climates or as you say it becomes of forest proportions.🐇

@brandyjean7015 Жыл бұрын

I did not know about the clockwise vining. Is this true for other vining plants as well?

@tangerine6949 Жыл бұрын

One would have to have a very large garden indeed to allow older versions of wisteria to take root, but American wisteria (Wisteria frutescens) would be a good alternative.

@bunnyguinness Жыл бұрын

Will check this out, thanks. We often put standard wisterias in small gardens ie with trunk and smallish top around 1-2m. 🐇

@bluesky7226 Жыл бұрын

@bunnyguinness Amethyst Falls is one variety that is smaller.

@johnsmith-ls4rc Жыл бұрын

I have found turnbuckle wire strainers very useful for this type of project. Its virtually impossible to get wire fully taut by hand, making it look untidy. For a few pounds, they represent excellent value IMO. Thanks for providing these videos.

@catmallin4671 5 ай бұрын

Could you plant it in a large pot?

@andresfresa123 Жыл бұрын

I have a wisteria that I planted 2 years and it did flowers the first year, this second year it grew allot and I didn’t flowered. The non flowering is because I need to trim? Thanks

@ajsjsndj 24 күн бұрын

You need to prune every year, if it grew a lot then it means the energy was used in growing rather than flowering

@brandyjean7015 Жыл бұрын

Im trying to use Google to compute 400 mil & it gives .4 of an inch. So I'm confused.

@bunnyguinness Жыл бұрын

Thats wrong! 400mm is 15.7 inches , maybe we should put imperial measurements up on screen. 🐇

@gardengatesopen Жыл бұрын

Don't they flower on old wood too? So pruning in the winter or early spring would cut all the fower buds.

@bunnyguinness Жыл бұрын

The proof of the pudding is in the picture, it flowers magnificently with this pruning regime. It does flower on both old and new wood but by spur pruning twice a year, do summer pruning in July/august in uk cutting the current years growth to 5 or 6 leaves after flowering and then back the same growth to two or three buds in jan or feb leaves enough old wood ie the ‘spurs’ on the plant which produce a lot of the flowers. Hope this helps 🐇

@gardengatesopen Жыл бұрын

@bunnyguinness Ahhh, Thank You. It blooms on both old AND new wood! I gladly stand corrected! Thanks for the info.

@stephaniesharkey3538 Жыл бұрын

Pretty but too destructive It went under my brothers clapboards and costed big problems! !

@elisaangel9789 Жыл бұрын

OMG, don't do it!! My neighbor's out-of-control, invasive wisteria is destroying everything it wraps around or boroughs through.

@aw9522 Жыл бұрын

Sorry, but this was useless. There's no close up videos on youtube with people actually pruning and showing the buds, etc. I can look up how to plant, etc on ny own, but no one ever shows how the pruning should be done and the explanation is generally useless without a demonstration. 👎👎👎