Re: Pruning Wisteria
- Subject: Re: Pruning Wisteria
- From: M* T*
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:02:22 -0500
You can hack it back severely about any time of year, BUT if you want
flowers, you need to do that right after it blooms as it forms next
year's flower buds on spurs on old wood...at least all the Asiatic
forms do; not sure about the native ones.
In late winter, you can give it a going over and remove wood that
does not show the very fat buds indicating flowers. Cut back to
three or four buds. You want to remove new growth during the season
that's getting out of bounds.
If you really hack it back, you may lose a year's flowers no matter
what time you do it, but if you need to control size, you sometimes
have to do this on overgrown specimens.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Allan Balliett <igg@igg.com>
>
> I apologize for the possible inappropriateness of this question:
>
> Can anyone tell me the appropriate time of the year here in North
> America for severely cutting wisteria back?
>
> Thanks
>
> _Allan Balliett
> Shepherdstown, WV 25443
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