How to get my wisteria to bloom?

[babyOcho]

It's been in for about 4 years and it has never bloomed, ever.
Is there anything I can do to make it bloom? Should I feed it something? I never water it as it seems happy apart from the fact there has never been flowers.

TIA

Buggered if I know. Mine hasn't flowered yet and we've had it five years

The gardener says some of them take ten years to flower

If they're grown from seed they can take a while to flower. You also need to prune it in the winter/spring and then again after it has flowered.

I don't know about young wisterias, and maybe you just leave it for a few years as some people have suggested. We have an old one which flowers every summer.

2 bits of advice I would give you: firstly, you MUST prune it every January and July to get flowers. Don't be frightened of overdoing it, it is almost impossible to over-prune a wisteria.

Secondly, do not feed it. The feed will just encourage lots of green foliage and you will get a mass of green leaves.

Treat 'em mean and keep 'em keen.

Ahh, I've never pruned. Will butcher it in July.
Really hope it does something next year, I thought it would bring some lovely colour to my garden, but it is so dull.

Can I plant a wisteria now?

yes - i've just planted one.

It took ours 15 yrs but is lovely now! 13 yrs without a single flower, one year with a few blooms and a good year this year but still too many leaves. I agree with brutal pruning.

Mine is still tiny (planted last year) but has quite a few flower buds - but they haven't opened, even though I think they should have by now...I guess it is still too puny to burst into flower.

10-15 years to bloom, I think.

We have a fabulous one on the front of our house, laden with flowers at the moment, but that is 40+ years old, I'm told.

I never water or feed ours, but I trim it back harshly once all the leaves have fallen off (Dec/Jan), back to two buds, and trim off the whippy bits in July.

August is a good time to prune - take all the unweildy long tendrils that you don't want to use back to about 2" (there's usually a cluster of buds, then I leave a couple extra). However, please be aware that wisteria sap stains and you'll get little brown marks on things that you dont know where they came from and are impossible to get out...

The cold mornings over the weekend has taken most of the flower buds on mine this year

if you buy a grafted named variety they will bloom quickly and you get a better colour.

Just to add that mine is actually flowering now, despite being tiny and only planted last year. The flowers are quite a dark purple so it must one of the grafted varieties that isthatporridge mentioned...