I have been naughty and wound my wisteria completely through a trellis. The reason I think I can get away with it is that the trellis is attached to three very thick posts into a double skin brick wall, and I expect that rather than hack back the wisteria I will be able to hack back the trellis itself, as it's a pretty cheap one which I did an absolutely awful job of screwing onto the posts. So hopefully one day the plant will be attached to the posts in a sort of trellis pattern, and I'll just have to pull rotting bits of trellis out from in between the big stems.
It’s not ideal but in the grand scheme of things it won’t be the end of the world.
The plant will almost certainly outlast the trellis, but there might very well be an opportunity to secure the plant another way and then remove the trellis in pieces when the time comes. At least wisterias are resilient.
I have been naughty and wound my wisteria completely through a trellis. The reason I think I can get away with it is that the trellis is attached to three very thick posts into a double skin brick wall, and I expect that rather than hack back the wisteria I will be able to hack back the trellis itself, as it's a pretty cheap one which I did an absolutely awful job of screwing onto the posts. So hopefully one day the plant will be attached to the posts in a sort of trellis pattern, and I'll just have to pull rotting bits of trellis out from in between the big stems.
Hopefully.
It’s not ideal but in the grand scheme of things it won’t be the end of the world.
The plant will almost certainly outlast the trellis, but there might very well be an opportunity to secure the plant another way and then remove the trellis in pieces when the time comes. At least wisterias are resilient.
Very useful, thank you. I appreciate your expertise.
Thank you very much for reading.
I hope you are collecting these for a book, Ben
I haven’t specifically…
You damn well should be