Wisteria that mostly died, but now is “interesting”.

[TrevorLarsen]

I have had this Wisteria for like 4 years. Here it is in 2021.
Here it is in 2022


Unfortunately most of it didn’t wake up last spring. The bottoms sprouted new growth and about 1/3 of the way up the trunk some growth eventually sprouted. This year it is finally waking up. I decided to just wrap the new growth around the dead trunk.

I am sure that eventually the dead parts of the trunk will fall apart but I am hopefully it will still look good with the main trunk gone. If anyone has had a similar situation or has any thoughts feel free to give advice or criticism.

 

[Michael P]

This sometimes happens to old wisterias in landscapes--part of the main stem dies then new growth from below twines over it. It could become very interesting over time.

 

[rockm]

FWIW, I would have cut the dead top off and moved the new growth to create a cascade. The shoots emerge in an area that would make that design pretty easy to achieve.

I'd also wonder why the top died off. A young already-containerized wisteria shouldn't experience such die-back. Overwintering might be the issue.

 

[TrevorLarsen]

FWIW, I would have cut the dead top off and moved the new growth to create a cascade. The shoots emerge in an area that would make that design pretty easy to achieve.

I'd also wonder why the top died off. A young already-containerized wisteria shouldn't experience such die-back. Overwintering might be the issue.

Good idea about the cascade I’ll have to think about that. I think the main part died because I left it out all winter just to see how it did. It was cheap and I wanted to see how it survived unprotected. Now I keep it under my deck all winter.

 

[TrevorLarsen]

I took the advice from @rockm and wired up the cascade branch. I still want to keep the top for now though so we will see how it does.