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Wisteria pods in the evening sun


Wisteria pods in the evening sun



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Great pic henny! :)

7 Aug, 2011

 

Thanks Pix :))

7 Aug, 2011

 

All your pics look fab henny! Good camera! Great photographer! :)

7 Aug, 2011

 

Not bad for a freebie!! :))))

7 Aug, 2011

 

Sorry if this is a silly question Karen but do you leave the pods or remove them? I had read that you should remove these once they appear and did this with mine earlier this year. Now I'm worried that I should have left them :(

7 Aug, 2011

 

I honestly don't know, Lil...I just leave them because I think they're nice to look at...
Eventually they ripen and burst...so I do have to lift wisteria seedlings...
It doesn't seem to affect the flowers, tho', it's just at the tail end of it's third flush this year...

7 Aug, 2011

 

Phew! Hope you're right as this was the first year that mine flowered. Thanks.

7 Aug, 2011

 

I'm actually quite hard on wisteria...they see me coming and tremble...

I do nothing to them for three years...
...and then I remove all the long runners that I don't want, training those I do, throughout the growing season. In late autumn/early winter I prune hard, then if necessary, they get it again early spring!! :)))

I've found that it's the pruning which is key to getting good flowers... :)))

7 Aug, 2011

 

I believe you're right about pruning. I was just worried bc as I said, this was the first year I had it bloom and did not want to have done something that would have affected this for next year.

I go after the long runners all season long as well, it seems. They seem to reappear over night :)

7 Aug, 2011

 

:)))

7 Aug, 2011



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