Anyone else clearing up the shambles in their garden today?

[Yamadori]

We lost a huge jasmine and its pergola, and I've just spent ages cutting it down. It was leaning right over sideways onto a big conifer, and I had to go so carefully so the whole lot didn't come crashing down on top of me and about a dozen bonsai trees underneath. I managed to rescue those thankfully, but the jasmine is a goner I think.

Most of it is cleared now, and I'm currently collapsed in a chair with a cup of tea, and nursing two very sore arms and a bad back.

I hope your gardens are all okay and came through relatively unscathed.

I am lucky. Just lost a cheapish metal arch and my beans from this year which I really should have cut down already.

DH went out there today and finished what I started. I'd got it all down, but left it all in a massive pile outside the back gate. He's chopped it all into smaller bits and it will be a lot easier to dispose of now. The rest of the garden was remarkably unscathed, although a neighbour did lose a tree in their front garden. It felled itself onto the path thankfully, rather than into the road or onto parked cars.

I'm across the channel but we had the same wind on Sunday and it pulled the support of a huge wisteria off the brick wall! The plant is now in the middle of the patio and I hope it's not broken :( It doesn't look like it is but it has so many stems, and the main ones are old and thick, that I can't be sure. I have to now plan a new support which should not be attached to the wall anymore, rather some sort of not deep pergola. Trying to find someone here who would do it. Meanwhile, any advice perhaps?

@PinkCamelias Oh my goodness, that sounds very difficult. I don't know all that much about them I'm afraid, but there could be some information on the RHS website about hard pruning wisteria.

Could you not just put more secure fixings into the wall or are you worried that the wall will come down next time?

Tomorrow….

@Yamadori i called a gardener who had a look and will see on Saturday if the plant can be lifted intact. He'd like to hard prune it but I'd prefer not to unless necessary. He's a young guy who doesn't have much experience so I can't completely rely on his advice!
@Geneticsbunny exactly, I'm worried the wall will come down! It's old and made of bricks. The current support (made by previous owner) was pulled despite huge nails, and it left holes in the wall...

@PinkCamelias I've done a little bit of checking on your behalf, and it seems that wisteria can be hard pruned in winter, so that option might be safer than trying to move it. Once it has been cut right back, you can install a pergola or some other structure for it to grow into.

Thank you very much @Yamadori !
Checking the RHS website now, indeed it looks like it's the best idea. I just have to make sure the pruning is not too drastic so it grows back! But I understand the idea is to prune all the canopy and be left with wooden stems (trunks) from which the new canopy will grow back, right? This is what it looked like in September after last pruning (the wall is ca. 1,8 m tall so the plant was ca. 2,5 m tall and 3-4 m long).

I would also leave the main stems running along the top of the wall in your picture