All About Wisteria: Growing, Cautions, Summer Pruning this Beautiful Behemoth 

Is it weird that the intimidating nature of this plant makes me want to have one more? Also, Ruth looks like Claire Danes! So lovely!

I have wanted a wisteria for years! Even after watching this I still really want one. However, I will no longer be planting it near my house so thank you!

I lived in an old tall narrow Victorian house in the Alphabet district back in the 80s. It had a Wisteria that had grown up the north side and over the roof. I loved it, but it was the possum super highway.

Well, that's that. Cleared myself from wanting that plant lolol. I'm all set. Thank you!!!!!!

I just purchased my first wisteria. And I was searching for how to take care of it. After reading how evasive it is, Iwas about to return it! But after watching your video, I felt so confident about keeping my wisteria. Thanks so much for the video. You gave all the advice I need to own a wisteria.

I hope you will share how you prune your wisteria for the winter. What an eye opener this video has been for me! I had no idea they were so work intensive. I've wanted one for years but hadn't gotten to it. I might not now...... Thank you!

I grew my wisteria from seed and after 7 years I got one flower last year from it for first time. No flowers this year yet but some buds. Balcony on north side of building evening sun in NY

I love the color combination of the wisteria and house. Absolutely beautiful!

Oh my gosh- this is the first video of PP that I have watched and not immediately added the featured plant to my “plants I yearn for” list! What a blessing! Have a great day!

Everything she says is absolutely true. Wisterias are scary I had to cut mine off because it was destroying my house 🏠

I have a lot Wisterias and I train mine as trees up bird feeding poles and metal rods in containers and for me they are easy to handle.

My parents planted Wisteria next to an adjacent house and in a few years’ time they were getting rid of it because it started lifting the neighbours’ roof!!! It is certainly a monster. Funny - throughout watching the video I kept on alternating between really wanting to get one and then thinking it is not really worth it 😀

I moved to a 3acre property in the country a year ago and woke up a couple days ago to tons of purple flowers everywhere. Didn't even know what it was. I saw only a small handful of them off in the distance last year. Googled "purple flowers" then came to RU-vid for some more info. Thankfully it's far away from the house but I can tell it's smothering other plants/trees. What a chore this is gonna be. It's def taking over!! Very pretty to see but def taking over.🙂 Thank you for this informative video. I truly had no idea what this plant was. I'm glad I looked it up because I would have just left it alone - by next year it would have been the only thing left on my property! lol!

I am giving my future homeowner best gift ever

My grandma had one in her yard..from Macon, Georgia- middle ga...and around spring time/ pollen season the bees loved the tree, lastly idk why it had a bad smell

If it’s got flowers on it at purchase you’re good. I got lucky mine was the strongest but not flowering most of the others had flowers so I figured it was from the same plant. My first year and flowers have appeared already.

Great video!

Yes! Wonderful advice all around. Planters must be cautious

Fantastic video! Exactly what I was looking for!

Great video

Thank you! I really appreciate this info!

This was a great video!!!❤

You teach so well

I still want to plant one to grow over my front door lol. I'm in Scotland. so not sure how much the weather here will affect its tendency to go wild. In any case, I'm planning to keep on top of the pruning all year

This is what I needed to know. Fantastic video and so helpful. Thank you! You have such a nice relaxing voice to listen to.

Great scientific information! Thank you

Great tips to grow this plant. Thank you so very much. Happy sabbath.

This is such an important video. I am new getting into permaculture and have gone a bit nuts purchasing as many plants as I can. No I have come to realise that all plants so in permaculture shops literally grow like weeds. I have even seen binding weed selling,
Convolvulus arvensis. NOBODY warns us that we might cause a problem for our neighbours or that we might not be able to remove a plant. (I have just removed a wormwood). I am now researching every plant because there are no warnings when purchasing

Great video. Thank you ❤️

Thank you very informative

Thank you

I dug a purple one up from a wooded area that had no home on it for many, many years. Actually, I just pulled up a rooted piece off the bottom area. Planted it on an arbor very near to our house and it grew lovely flowers for many years BUT I knew nothing about growing them and just let it go. I grew under the aluminum siding, through the attic, and out the other side of the house. When we moved the new owner cut it down - smart people. I then dug another piece off that same old abandoned lot, this time getting a white one and did something very different. We had a chain length fence put in at our new home and I asked them to sink a 10 foot pole into the ground out in the middle of our acre lot - away from any structure. I asked them to attach wires in the top by drilling holes and letting them hang down like an umbrella. They did and I put the white wisteria at the base. Then I proceeded to forget about it. It grew very well by itself and up to the top then all along the wires looking ever so much like a beautiful white umbrella. Then came the downside, it grew more and more vines from the bottom and now it is a huge oval over ten feet tall and wide. The only one that enjoys it is the cat playing hide and seek. It doesn't flower anymore and I wasn't sure what to do as I loved it as a major focal point before when it was blossoming and didn't have the heart to cut it down. NOW, I see your video and think I could rehabilitate it back to a beautiful focal point. Thank you so much for all this great information, very thorough and interesting.

Thank you so much for your awesome video and warning! As much as I'd love the vine and flowers...I know I'm not that committed of a gardener!🌹🌹♥️♥️🌹🌹

I'm in Southeastern Ohio and this Video was VERY helpful. I planted a small Wisteria about 11 years ago. I believe its a Kentucky Wisteria. At first , when it was around 8 years old , it actually had several flowers on it . I knew nothing of proper pruning, just did the best I could and was constantly removing the long vine that showed up at the base of the Tree. I have had some health issues and can no longer get up on a ladder to prune it on top. This year , only one sad but long blue blossom. Its in front of my house and it is on a wood Arbor. Its taken me so long to nurture it from a baby, that I will not get rid of it or move it. My adult Son cut it back one time and I honestly thought he killed it. But the next year...it was back with more flowers. But it is somewhat invasive if you don't keep at it. Just thought I'd share . Thank you for all the tips!

So very helpful! Just received a blue moon wisteria plant and don’t know how to care for it!!

Thank you so much for this video! I was considering growing a wisteria…close to my home or down in my lower gardens…but was incredibly unaware about the vigorous growth nor the constant upkeep required. As beautiful as this plant is I’m definitely putting this on hold! 🌺

Thanks for this. I moved mine by my house for this season (2 year old) and oh my god it took over the whole front side. I will be moving it again very soon.

I'm in my first winter in the first house I've owned (!) in NZ and have inherited wisteria (I'm 99% sure - haven't yet seen it flower). Planted on a trellis next to the garden and shed and carport - and it's all through the roof of the garage too! Do you know of any videos that demo the winter pruning? Obviously the wrong season for you. I've only just come across your channel in the last week and am getting sooooo many great tips and ideas for my new garden. Thank you so much!

I call it my little shop of horrors plant.

I planted a trio triangle of Wisteria trees two yrs ago. The tallest of the three was a 7" twig when I planted it. Today I pruned it (so much fun) and did some more training and it's taller than I am and I'm 5' 3". My front yard was completely bare. And now I have a beautiful tree right in the middle😊. It hasn't bloomed yet but I'm hoping next yr😊

Oh my! Thank you for all that valuable truth about wisteria. May be too much beauty isn’t a good thing.

You can find them in a tree form now, which makes their size manageable, it only grows to around 10 feet high & long.

My current home came with three Kentucky Wisteria, Wisteria macrostachya (Blue Moon x Aunt Dee). One was tiny and died. Another one stayed relatively small since it was competing with English ivy. The third is huge and lives on the fence between our and the neighbor's driveway. We need to move the Wisteria. The smaller one seems like we could dig it up and move it without killing it. Not sure about the big one.

Really helpful video. Just bought a house with a big very established one along a shared fence but hasn't been checked/pruned ever I don't think, can't wait to feed it magnesium and phosphorus and prune it back so we can train it against the entire fence. But after your valuable advice I'll make sure the fence structure is strong enough and I keep it regularly in check. Thank you.

Theres a wisteria behind my backyard fence that grew randomly im sure one of the birds gifted it to me for feeding them lol but i gladly accepted it n i really like letting it go wild but im glad to know i can give it a heavy pruning n it will come right back. I also saved seeds but now im glad to learn cuttings is a much better way to go. I saved your video for future reference btw 😁👍🏻👍🏻

Thank you for this Angela. I have always wanted a trellis covered in wisteria. I'm going to put it away from the building now. Thanks for this one. 🌈💜🌎✌️

Loved this video! Where did your dad get his wooden post?

Thank u for interesting information about Wisteria, now I will cut my wisteria and hope for flowers next spring, didn’t get any in 5 years from I plant it. 😅

Moved into the old home place of which Wysteria had long been running ramped, ruined a very nice fence we had to remove. However, we were more concerned with it getting into our septic line, which would be a bigger nightmare for us.

The flowers are actually edible, and safe in moderate quantities. (Also, delicious). Same as Black Locust. Look it up.

If you want to get rid of wisteria, try drilling several holes into the bigger stems, trunk or roots, pointing up so it can hold a liquid. And then put some Roundup or other type of plantkiller into the holes to have it soak it up. This worked with a cut down hackberry tree who's roots kept trying to grow new trees.

👍🏼🌸 I love the wisteria looks and smells but it has gotten out of hand and has spread all over my huge trees . It is over 100 feet tall .

Well I just planted a wisteria in front of our house (not on the house, but pretty close with a trellis behind it). It's grown quite a bit in just a month's time. I miiiiiight think about moving it before it starts prying up the siding now...

Amethyst Falls wisteria is sold as a FAR less aggressive version of wisteria. It is a frutescens type. WELL. Not only does that one smell like cat pee but it TOO seems impossible to kill. For some years it was growing at a fence corner, looking like a small tree. Then one spring most of the top growth was dead and it looked awful, so I cut it down. Needless to say I got copious new shoots, which I sprayed to kill. I have sprayed them now for more than 4 years straight and they are STILL coming up copiously.. And NOT just where the trunk was but spread out from it infiltrating other plants making those shoots impossible to spray. This was just ONE smallish plant. BEWARE and do not believe any positive hype and do NOT plant wisteria ever. You might also catch some Old Byrd Farm videos about wisteria consuming an old property in Georgia.

I have several all in a pot and trained up a pole in tree form and maintained, it is a problem if you don't keep it in check.

What do you think of training your wisteria into a tree/standard form?

Wisteria stresses this woman out so badly.

Could you plant it by a chain link fence? I have a chain link fence backing a fair ground. It would give privacy.

I planted 3 purple ones and waiting on a yellow one that I ordered . And I made sure it's away from the house.

Can you give us an update video on your hardy kiwis/ berry kiwi

Dang at the end of the video 😂 the Wisteria already grew back onto the Wind chime 😵🤯 Hahha in one hour 😅 thats crazy

Thank you. I have one, sometimes, sorry I purchased it. A little afraid of its fast growth although mine is not out of hand. Guess I have a new type of child now. 🤭

As soon as I saw the base of your wisteria, 9:36 I realised I have to talk to you. We have cut it to bare bone as yours small, and this is first spring when our wisteria has first shoots out. And I want to pot it, or move it all together. Is there a way I can share some pics with you, I want to be more educated about wisteria, We inherited it with our house purchase.🌿

further caution: A previous owner planted wisteria. It's killed one tree, maimed 8 more, & I've been fighting it for three years now. The flowers are pretty but sparse, and there're roots thru over half our yard sending up shoots; it's grown into four of the neighbor's yards too.

I did not know any of this. Can I dig up the trunk and move it? When should I do it and how much to cut back? Thanks

Angela, I have a related question. I live in a townhome with a small garden space and I was wondering if I could use a purple robe locust or another locust tree as a support structure for espalier fruit trees if I pollarding them. I would really appreciate your input. And if the locust would not work for that application, do you have any recommendations that would? I love your channel and appreciate all you share. Thank you!

Would this plant help in mid Michigan in my yard where I have constant standing water ? I'm looking at planting a tree vs trying to level

i am in northern virginia you think its a good plant for my pergola ( also weatherwise too ) ?

Will it be ok on a chain link fence? I want something nice to cover the fence for some privacy

Very good video, but may I ask. How much watering do they need when young and my leaves have yellow spots, what is this. Thankyou

I made a mistake and germinated 6 wisteria seeds out of excitement.. To my surprise, all have successfully sprouted, but now I am panicking as I do not know where to plant them all!

I live in Michigan and it gets cold here. I have a baby wisteria That I have in a small pot and I dont plan to live in this house much longer. My question for you is can I keep a wisteria in a pot indoors by a window during winter until I get my own house ?

Is it able to do well in clay soil?

Try keeping it in a pot and train as a bonsai. I've had mine for over 10 years. Let it grow till July, then prune back.

Great video! I wonder if you have any experience with a purple wisteria changing to white blossoms? This recently happened with our wisteria and I am really curious what might have caused the colour change and whether it can be brought back to the original purple? Thanks 😁

We had an archway where we grew Virginia creepers it was weekly trimming and ties a lot of maintaining but beautiful when controlled I'm at new home growing wisteria blue moon in pots on my deck now I think I'll put it out in the yard to grow along a trellis we have a very long space for them to for telling me they are toxic my pets so chew on plants in the garden tyty

We have no choice about where to plant it, we share a small patio withtwo other houses, ours is a cottage, i want to grow it on the front up the wall, we will have to prune it to keep it controlled

When is a good time to take a cutting 5.07 pm

I so badly want a wisteria tree in my backyard and put a table and chairs under its shade to just chill during the summer or maybe a hammock i guess a weeping willow would be better for lounging under but wisteria is so pretty even though its poisonous

Great video and beautiful plant! I have a couple questions (as a newbie): Can it be grown indoors? I live in the dorms on an air force base in Arizona and can't take it outside but i do have it on my window (its growing beautifully so far & i absolutely adore this little baby) giving it as much sunlight as possible, What would be a suitable pot size for it? I have it in a wide glass candle container. Also what nutrients should i add (if any) to the soil, i already have it in 1 part original soil and 3 parts worm castings (im trying to keep it natural). Last question is, when the sun goes down and i have my ceiling lights in my room does it not like the additional light? Like, will i be stunting the plant? & also should i consider an artificial light to supplement it's light intake? & if so what spectrum would you recommend ? Thanks in advance, 1st time watching your channel & i give you 10/10! :D

My wisteria vine bought at a plant nursery isn't doing anything at all. Had it for 2 weeks now. Any idea why?

I really want a wisteria but I'm so incredibly intimidated I bought a rescue clematis instead😂

I didn’t see any pods on your wisteria. The variety I have produces many pods and is would like to remove as many as possible when I prune, to reduce the toxicity risk for my puppy. Will that damage the plant?

I almost cut it down completely bcs I don’t know what kind it was since last year it didn’t bloom. Until now it has begun blooming but no green leaves, is this normal?

Glad I found court video

We have a young wisteria that is growing in a shade. I want to transplant it so it can get more sun. Can I do that without killing it

Can you chop and drop Wisteria or does it root too easily?

Will I die before it becomes a problem?

Is it American wisteria or Japanese wisteria?

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Did you mention which variety you have in this vid? If not, would you please let us know? 😊

I cannot get anywhere near my wisteria, when it in bloom, the bumblebees swarm the plant.

We got a wisteria couple of months ago and I think I’m watering it tooo much…leaves are turning yellow/drying😢…

Can you sell a rooted cutting?

So if you keep up with the pruning can it be ok? I feel like no one ever really answers that question, people just keep saying “it can take over! It can take over!” I guess I want to know what the roots do? I plan to keep up with the pruning and train it into a tree form, also not right next to the house, but I want to know if I should be worried about the roots doing any damage? How far from my house should I keep it?

Oh no, I just for one 😢

Do you know the name of your dads Wisteria???

Will this plant repel demons?

I would not say it can grow a foot a day its not a hop but it can easliy grow multiple inches a day i would say hop is more of a hog than wisteria

Geeezzzzz - the stress level about trimming this wisteria was evident. I get it - you don't like the plant!!!! OR Perhaps it was just the fact that having to come over, from her OWN garden, to help her father, who actually planted this invasive run amok toddler of a plant, that was so exasperating for her.