RE: Re: Wisteria question

Hmmm.  That's a thought.  I would think you would want to cut any spring
blooming vine/shrub after it has bloomed and not just before it is supposed
to bloom.  My next door neighbor complained bitterly about his lilac having
never bloomed and if it didn't bloom that next spring, he was going to trash
it.  Lo and behold, early spring just before it was to bloom I saw him out
there with his pruners.  I ran over and told him that if he didn't cut it
back for a month or so, he might have those blooms he so coveted.  Sure
enough, his lilac bloomed that spring!  And I had also read that a wisteria
may need a fair amount of time to start blooming.  

I'm still waiting for my hydrangea to bloom.  It is about 4 years old now, I
think.  Maybe this will be the year?

Blessings,
Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Donna
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 2:48 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: Wisteria question

I am sure you are not growing the same wisteria I am, but a friend gave it
to me about 6-7 years ago and it has bloomed every year- well at least a few
especially at first. It was very tiny back then, he had overwintered it once
so it was only 2 years old- of course I have no idea if it was a seed or a
graft...but thinking graft. He wanted me to try it and see if it was going
to behave and survive here. it did survive, but wish it would have grown
faster.

Are you sure you are not cutting off the blooms to be when you doing all
this trimming?

Donna

--- "Christopher P. Lindsey" <lindsey@mallorn.com>
wrote:

> > We do that every year, for the past 6 years, at
> least.  Is there such  a
> > thing as non-blooming wisteria?  Had to go out and
> wack at it again, it  was
> > climbing every tree.
> 
> Hi Noreen,
> 
>    I read somewhere that a wisteria needs to be at least seven years 
> old
>    before it will bloom.  Is it an old one, or a young one?
> 
> Chris
> 
>
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