Summer prune wisteria

Cut back the twining shoots on your wisteria now to control the growth and encourage more flowering wood. If left, those shoots will twine through the plant and create an unruly mass of shoots.

Use secateurs to cut each one back, leaving a ‘spur’ with about five or six leaves. In the winter, remove any shoots that you missed and prune those spurs back again, to just two buds and the flower buds will then develop on the wood left behind those cuts.

MAKE a hole in the firmed compost with a dibber and insert the cutting by at least a third of its length. Then firm in and water.