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Ian LeGros

Ian LeGros Curator RHS Garden Hyde Hall

I joined the Hyde Hall team as an untrained assistant gardener in 1992, was promoted to Garden Superintendent in April 2005 and then to Curator in June 2006. Over the years I have been lucky enough to play a lead role in many of Hyde Hall’s landmark projects including setting out the Farmhouse Garden, the redevelopment of the Queen Mother’s Garden, and the creation of the Millennium Avenue and Wild Wood. Most recently I helped to co-design the new Robinson Garden which was opened in 2007.

  • Date Joined: 12 Jul 2007

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Diary notes - 24 January - Wisteria pruning

Posted by Ian LeGros on 24 Jan 2008 at 01:28 PM

At Hyde Hall you enter the eight-acre Hilltop Garden through a solid oak pergola draped with the wonderfully scented Wisteria brachybotrys 'Shiro-kapitan' and this needs to be pruned twice a year - in Janaury and June.

At the moment members of the Hilltop Gardening team are hard pruning to about 2-3 inches per spur.  The next prune will be a light one in June when each spur is reduced by about half.

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pipporosso 57 said:

I am having a big issue with my wisteria. It's never flowered (I bought it 5 years ago). I haven't the faintest idea what are main branches and what are spurs. At the moment it has four really large tendrils that have grown from it. What are they and what do I do with them ;0]?

It's about 110 cms and  the "bushy" part with the leaves is about 110 long. I don't know what type it is . I asked for a purple flowering one! I'D HATE TO GIVE UP ON ANY PLANT ESPECIALLY THIS ONE THANKS

on 18 Sep 2008 at 05:07 PM

bogweevil said:

A mere 1.1m is very small for a wisteria that has had five whole growing seasons to grow and spread - plants have a natural propensity to flower as they get bigger, (although this natural inclination is good deal less marked in wisteria then other plants, but it sounds as if you plant has just not grown and perhaps needs replanting after improving the soil.  One common cause of failure to grow is planting tight against a wall  - set it 50cm out from the base of the wall so its gets some rain.

Boggy

on 21 Sep 2008 at 09:44 PM