Wisteria is incredibly beautiful but incredibly invasive as well. We had wisteria at my house growing up and it had to be pruned and cut back quite frequently. We slacked on the maintenance and it basically took down the fence it was growing on. I don't think it'll be as easy to take down that house but you never know.
Someone spends probably 5-10 hours per month on a ladder pruning to achieve this. During the summer, wisteria grows so fast you can see the difference between when you leave for work in the morning and when you get back for dinner. Source: have wisteria.
When I was a kid, my mom planted some Wisteria in a garden next to our porch. I can remember sitting on our porch swing and watching the wisteria basically growing in real time trying to reach out and grab the swing to find its next victim. You would start swinging, and by the time you were done and small little piece of it would have reached far enough to touch the rope as you swung by. Another memory was, one of the pieces near the base wrapped around 3 consecutive banister uprights and continued to grow and squeeze them together until it snapped the wood and pulled the outer two into the middle one. It was around an inch in diameter at that point. It always reminded me of the vine in Jumanji.
mar10wright on December 3rd, 2017 at 23:23 UTC »
Wisteria is incredibly beautiful but incredibly invasive as well. We had wisteria at my house growing up and it had to be pruned and cut back quite frequently. We slacked on the maintenance and it basically took down the fence it was growing on. I don't think it'll be as easy to take down that house but you never know.
dhmt on December 4th, 2017 at 01:24 UTC »
Someone spends probably 5-10 hours per month on a ladder pruning to achieve this. During the summer, wisteria grows so fast you can see the difference between when you leave for work in the morning and when you get back for dinner. Source: have wisteria.
seanhodgins on December 4th, 2017 at 02:04 UTC »
When I was a kid, my mom planted some Wisteria in a garden next to our porch. I can remember sitting on our porch swing and watching the wisteria basically growing in real time trying to reach out and grab the swing to find its next victim. You would start swinging, and by the time you were done and small little piece of it would have reached far enough to touch the rope as you swung by. Another memory was, one of the pieces near the base wrapped around 3 consecutive banister uprights and continued to grow and squeeze them together until it snapped the wood and pulled the outer two into the middle one. It was around an inch in diameter at that point. It always reminded me of the vine in Jumanji.