The long Easter weekend is finally here, which means there’s ample time to carry out some essential garden maintenance on a variety of flowers and plants. If you’re growing wisteria, it may look a little bare, but now is the perfect time to give it some TLC.
Wisteria typically blooms between late spring and early summer, so there’s only a few weeks left before you can expect a beautiful display of flowers. To help ensure your plant is getting as much energy as possible to grow a bountiful display, gardening expert and TikTok creator Ish explained that there’s a simple trick you can do to give wisteria a “jump start”. It may seem slightly unconventional, but the results will speak for themselves come the blooming season.
Ish’s task will take you just five minutes to complete. In a recent video, Ish said: “If you’re training a wisteria umbrella like this one here and it’s starting to bud, you’re gonna need to act now.”
You’ll want to check the stems of your wisteria umbrella for any buds, no matter how big or small. Ish explained that buds growing on the stems will divert energy away from the top of the plant, which is not what you want.
If you start noticing buds growing on the stems, Ish urged gardeners to pinch these off. He said: “By doing that, it’ll focus all this energy up there and not down here.”
With buds forming at the top of the plant, you’ll want to leave them alone to allow them to sprout. Once the stems and leaves start to form, these can be manipulated around a pergola for a gorgeous display of flowers.
To help encourage a thicker growth, gardeners will need to give their wisteria a decent spring feed. The gardening expert recommended powdered bloodfish or bone.
Simply sprinkle the feed on top of the soil and water it in. If you don’t want to use bloodfish or bone, Ish recommended using slow-releasing feed pellets.
These can be added to the soil, then gently mixed in before watering. These will help give the plant a burst of vital nutrients to help it flourish.
Make sure you position any wisteria in a place where it can bask in a generous amount of sunlight, too.
You won’t need to prune the plant, as this should have been in February. The next time you’ll be able to prune wisteria is in August, after the blooms have thrived.
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