seedcorn
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It can be invasive. I'll take pix of mine later. It's growing up a light pole. If you trim new growth, you will stop it from flowering. Not a good thing. Guessing you trim it after it quits blooming. Can't kill it..
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PRUNE HARD now, PRUNE HARD mid summer, PRUNE HARD next March (each branch down to 3 or four nodes) and root pruning is another thing you can try. If grown from seed no matter how you prune it can take from 7 to 10 years before you see the first bloom, ask me how I know this. When buying a wisteria always buy one in flower or one where you can see the flower buds starting to swell. I always prune mine about now and then again in the summer, I get 3 flushes of bloom each year, the first is always the showiest before the leaves emerge and two smaller flushes in among the leaves later on. Thankfully not invasive here.
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Annette that is what I envisioned with my shed
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Thirty years here and nary a bud. I just might try threatening mine with a shovel and pruning shears. Heck, if I extend the raised-bed garden, it will be in the way so it may be history next year anyway.
Like Nyboy, mine isn't overly invasive here. It is about 6 feet high and 3 feet around. For a wisteria it is well-behaved if disappointing. Mom gave me a plant she'd mislabled. Turned out to be a wisteria that ran rampant through my tree and shrub 'nursery' and taking years to eradicate.
Like Nyboy, mine isn't overly invasive here. It is about 6 feet high and 3 feet around. For a wisteria it is well-behaved if disappointing. Mom gave me a plant she'd mislabled. Turned out to be a wisteria that ran rampant through my tree and shrub 'nursery' and taking years to eradicate.
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30 years !!!!!!
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We have red trumpet vines that grow wild here on our place and all around. The sheep eat any new sprouts, they like them. We also have red honeysuckle that is a wild vine.
canesisters
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My Mom wanted to plant a one of those UNDER her back deck (almost a 2nd story high) and let it come out the lattice all around. I FINALLY convinced her that it would rip the deck off of the house. She planted it out in the yard and tried to keep it pruned into a cute little tree... When it was about 6 yrs old, and Dad got sick of mowing the sprouts in a 15' circle around it, it was cut down. After several years of STILL mowing the sprouts I attacked it with my 'kills EVERYTHING' mix.
... He's still mowing sprouts - just not as many.. yet.
... He's still mowing sprouts - just not as many.. yet.
seedcorn
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@canesisters So what is in this mix?
