Containing Wisteria
I love wisteria, but found out that it is extremely invasive. Our landscape consultant gave me a great idea to enjoy wisteria without all of the problems it will produce.
I thought that you could just trim the wisteria to contain it. Little did I know that the roots were just as invasive, if not more.
We uprooted the wisteria, and planted it in a container on the deck. It is now quickly growing up the pergola and providing beautiful flowers. Soon some shade. We still need to prune and trim it, but the roots are contained and that is half the battle.
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In Central Texas our Wisteria is a tree. I've never heard of it being a vine. And it only blooms once, in early spring.
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I had a Trumpet Vine get out of control but did not know our Wisteria would do the same thing. Ours is more of a tree after trimming and it is connected to an arbor. I do have to trim the ends to contain the tree and after 8 long years it was loaded last summer with beautiful, sweet grape scented trailing flowers. I have not seen any roots coming up anywhere yet like with the Trumpet Vine did, which by the way was very hard to kill off. I hate to find out the Wisteria may be a problem! I'll keep my eye on it.
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We had one get out of control. We dug it up. but it still keeps coming up. Please I hate to do this but I must kill it, but how?
How do you kill wisteria for good?
I have 2 plants in barrels that have not produced flowers in 8 years. Not sure why. Been giving Bloom fertilizer. Any suggestions?