If you’re struggling to get wisteria to sprout new leaves ready to bloom, this is how you can give it an extra boost before flowering
If you’re struggling to get wisteria to sprout new leaves ready to bloom, this is how you can give it an extra boost before flowering(Image: Getty Images)
Wisteria is a magnificent plant to have decorated your garden, and there’s not long left before it starts to bloom. Its abundance of flowers can be a real show stopper, but if you’re worried about them not flowering, you don’t need to fret yet.
Come around to May time, and your wisteria should be blooming beautifully. By now, you should be noticing a few new leaves sprouting on the plant to get ready to bloom.
However, if yours hasn’t done that, you can check you’ve completed these three simple tasks. These will help encourage more blooms down the line, and in years to come.
Make sure the wisteria is positioned in plenty of sunlight, but shield from excess wind(Image: Getty Images)
In a recent TikTok video, gardening expert Ish said: “If your wisteria hasn’t started flowering yet, don’t panic, there’s still time to get it going, and I’m gonna show you exactly how.”
Firstly, you want to make sure you’ve positioned any wisteria plant in a place where it can bask in a generous amount of sunlight. Essentially, the sunnier, the better. If it’s possible, try to keep wisteria in a spot that isn’t exposed to excess wind.
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.
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These can be added to the soil, then gently mixed in before watering. These will help give the plant a burst of vital nutrients into the plant’s roots to help strengthen it, and in turn, help it flourish.
The gardening expert explained that dogs are attracted to the smell of this type of feed, so if you do use it, make sure that the feed is buried deep within the soil. Gardeners can also cover the feed with a generous amount of compost.
One of Ish’s top tips for giving wisteria an extra boost, after around a month on from doing these initial jobs, you can add a tomato feed to the wisteria. He said: “Tomato feed massively increases the yields of flowers and vegetables. So, it’s a little secret weapon for you.”
Lastly, Ish suggested giving the plant a prune. It’s not essential and may seem counterintuitive, but in this case you want to focus on trimming off any dead stems. If you need to prune wisteria to benefit its health, Ish explained that there are three things you need to look out for.
These include damaged stems (to cut right back), diseased stems that have signs of fungal infection, and dead stems that will have a grey-ish colour. Leaving these types of stems on the plant will only waste energy and divert it away from the healthy roots that are trying to grow wonderful blooms.
He explained that you can cut away any dead stems at any point throughout the year on a wisteria plant. If your wisteria is in its infancy, don’t worry about the lack of flowers, as these plants can take two to three years to establish.
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