Gardening tips for June/July: Pruning wisteria
Read our handy guide to pruning wisteria in June and July
How to prune wisteria
Having finished its spring flowering, wisteria makes rampant growth now with long, whippy shoots; they need pruning back at midsummer before they become overbearingly tangled.
Cut back the trailing, wiry stems now, to leave four or five leaf-joints remaining on each stem. (Wisterias need twice-yearly pruning: the next time will be in midwinter, when you will be hard-pruning to get good flowering spurs; alas, it cannot all be done at once right now.)
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