Transplanting a fully grown wisteria is certainly not easy. There should therefore be important reasons for doing so. After all, this lushly flowering climbing plant can live for several decades and should also feel comfortable during this time.
It is better not to transplant larger wisteria
Why should the wisteria be transplanted?
There can be different reasons for transplanting a wisteria, but the most important ones are usually that the wisteria is not flowering or its space is used for other purposes or plants. A possible reason for the lack of flowering is often a wrong location.
To ensure that your Wisteria blooms profusely in the future, treat it to a sunny spot, because it doesn't really like shade. On the other hand, a slightly permeable soil with a low lime content is good for it.
You should keep this in mind when transplanting
Wisteria has both deep taproots and spreading shallow roots. So that your plant has the best possible chance of growing successfully in the new location, you should leave the roots intact as much as possible. They won't quite succeed with an old wisteria. But mostly you don't have to worry too much because the wisteria is quite hardy.
Before you dig up the wisteria, you should first cut it back radically. In this way, you make your work much easier, but also your blue rain. This makes it easier for it to grow back.
Since certainly not all roots have survived, your wisteria now needs a little more care than before. Water it a little more often, but not too much. On the other hand, you should use fertilizer sparingly.
The essentials in brief:
- roots deep and wide
- ideal time: autumn or early spring
- first cut back the plant by about two thirds
- Dig out the root ball as completely as possible
- dig a sufficiently large planting hole
- Pour the soil well over the existing roots
- do not fertilize excessively
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If your blue rain is due to move, then don't wait much longer to transplant. The younger the plant, the easier the work and the better the wisteria tolerates the procedure.