Wisteria in containers

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We've been investing lots of time on the garden and a kind relative has now gifted us a 1.5-1.8 metre tall wisteria from our local excellent garden centre.

Thing is we can't plant it into any good and available soil so would like to containerise it Togo against our front porch.

Can anyone suggest a good container size and compost?

Thanks !!

Hopeful bump

Watching with interest as I'm in the same position!

All I have gleaned till now is that RHS recommends John Ines No 3 compost, pruning following a diagram in Jul/Aug and Jan/Feb, fixing galvanised wires to the wall horizontally and the biggest container I can find is a 50 cm Wilko Patio Tub.

Sorry, no recommendations, but my wisteria did not flower once in 10+ years, until it was planted in to a flower bed. Since then it has flowered every year - heavy pruning twice a years seems to do the trick.

Photo is from last year.

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Sorry.

It is worth a try.

As large a container as possible, lots of tomato-type fertiliser and hard pruning may all help.

What wisteria have you got?

A Japanese/Chinese hybrid is more likely to flower earlier; many needs several years before anything happens.

Wisteria - lovely, but a long game IME.

I'm also following as I want a wisteria in a pot too.....

Here are some pics one of the full plant the other the name label

That sounds like a Japanese hybrid to me
Fingers crossed!

www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/132191/i-Wisteria-brachybotrys-i-f-i-albiflora-i-Shiro-kapitan/Details?returnurl=%2Fplants%2Fsearch-results%3Fquery%3DWisteria this is it

I've cleared a spot in the ground for it - but I can see that's where some pipes seem to go in/out of the house so.....

I think you'll find yourself having to water it every day or two throughout the summer if it's in a pot. I would try to put in the ground if at all possible. It likes full sun.

It's going in the ground!!! It's the front wall of our house - in full sun all the time, have dug a hole. As RHS recommends - Will place horizontal wires on wall 18 cm apart, plant, tie to supports, backfill with John Innes No 3 and feed with a rose and flowering shrub feed (or tomato feed), water well, not let it get too wet, and wait to see how things unfold. In the interim will also study pruning instructions for newly planted wisterias