How to support wisteria on a 350yo rendered cottage

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Is it possible to grow a wisteria on this kind of wall or will the weight of the plant eventually cause problems with the house (it's listed).

Anyone?

We don't fasten anything to our GrI house. Have had four listed houses, three rendered. Have fastened plants to the brick one, not the others.

I bet you could though, we just didn't. It would take many years before the plant became that heavy.

You would have to drill into the walls and fit vine eyes and wires to support the plant. Wisteria won't grow without support.

This is more of a home maintenance question than a gardening one.

That is what we did on brick. We have never wanted to introduce a network of holes in the old rendered walls.

Thank you fellow gardeners. Yes I suppose this is more of a house maintenance issue than a gardening one. I know it would take decades for it to become a problem- just thinking ahead I guess(!) :)
I've wired roses, clematis etc to the house but I'm not worried about those as they don't grow into proper 'trees'.

Could you put a trellis in front of the wall supported on posts or something and not actually attached to the wall?

I'm not sure why a few holes in the render would be that much of a problem though.

Wisteria won't damage the house as it doesn't attach, you need to put wires up and tie it to those

I think it is fine here in Gardening scrique.

Our wisteria required lots of training, new holes and wires every couple of feet - fine in brick. It grew like wildfire, we used to have to stop it infiltrating the gutters on a regular basis in the summer.

Having paid £££££££ for new render and paint in a GrI listed house I was not prepared to drill into it.

A trellis won't support wisteria, it's probably going to be growing there for a hundred years if your cottage keeps going.

Drilling into the wall is the only way.