Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Taming the wisteria, 1 by haighr

haighr wrote:
Mine came from a mature plant and I have shaped it much as possible into a tree. Never bloomed until it was split by a severe storm and that next spring it bloomed like incredible! The nursery said it would never make it, but I used vice clamps and grips to pull it together much as possible and duct taped it and sure enough the trauma made it bloom. Since that year it blooms, but spareingly. Sure it is the pruneing job I do. I have read and read that it blooms on the "second year growth". I was just out there the other day and cut on it and then will do the same in fall, but invariably I wind up with lots of leaf vegetation and sparce blooms.