How does a person keep wisteria from spreading all over-the- place? They are SOOOO aromatic ......and beautiful in the right place!
2006-09-06 17:16:23 · 8 answers · asked by gedanini3@yahoo.com 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
It's tough, because it's a vine, and if your lawn is suited for it, it will take over. Personally I really like wisteria. Hurricane Rita took out my favorite bush.
You can twist the stems together, during the dormant season, and make sort of an arbor with it.
Keep trimming or mowing the rest, because it is really hard to kill, unless a hurricane comes by and rips it out by the roots and carries it away to Oz.
Where my favorite used to be, I have gotten a lot of new growth, and it will take quite a while to rebuild the arbor.
2006-09-14 17:13:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
first of all, decide what you want to keep. the isolate it. choose some liner material used for edging, dig about 6 feet out and around the area for root space. go down about 18-24 inches. heavy guage plastic will stop roots from traveling, wisteria is a shallow root plant so that should be adequate. line with solid plastic edging material with an overlap when joining edges. (if a tree is supporting the vine then you have a problem without modifying this arrangment.) i was going for a single stalk with no support and it is now about 5" thick and 7 foot tall, straight with white and purple flowers on same. beutiful every year.
once established, you can prune this wisteria vine pretty heavily after flowering, but don't stop there. just don't nip small growth, be agressive. you can't hurt it except by cutting it off at the ground, then new shoots would drive you crazy. the key is to stay ahead of the game here. there are some small differences between the chinease variety and the japanease variants. research carefully, one goes clock-wise and the other opposite, you figure it out (snick).
take a herbicide like round-up and "brush" with paint-brush and using protective gear like gloves, the sprouts popping up outside of the main plant. be very careful... some salt solutions will work with an acid solution, but less so. start slow and just hand chop/cut the nearest ones. round-up goes to the root so be very sparing using it. use no sprayer! chop with shovel around the sprout that your treating to isolate it (couple of inches).
lots more out there, these are just my ideas and what i know.
2006-09-06 17:44:33 · answer #2 · answered by johnjohnwuzhere 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I planted a wisteria this year and planted 3 of them together to form a tree. Just keep them pruned and you should have no problem. They can be a nuisance but they are very beautiful...
2006-09-12 02:03:46 · answer #3 · answered by jinglesmomeami@verizon.net 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A hard pruning is the best way to go. And don't fertilize or you will get an explosion of green. Just keep em pruned and don't do any additives and they should be OK.
2006-09-11 17:00:29 · answer #4 · answered by Mark L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to prune them often. Sometimes every two weeks. It is very aggressive, but can be trained into a tree with enough pruning.
2006-09-06 22:11:02 · answer #5 · answered by tensnut90_99 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
After mine finished blooming I HACKED it back and pulled up any root suckers. It has been the same size for years because of that!
2006-09-06 17:48:17 · answer #6 · answered by bugsie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1st plant in a pot to keep from being so evasive and keep puring
2006-09-10 22:51:09 · answer #7 · answered by dettie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YOU CAN PRUNE IT BACK....MOST PEOPLE JUST BUILD A BIGGER TRELLIS....THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL
2006-09-06 17:19:10 · answer #8 · answered by flowerspirit2000 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋