Long horizontal wires with a small vertical range are ideal for ramblers, scrambling plants and espalier trees such as climbing and rambler roses, bramble-like shrubs and winter-flowering jasmine. The Standard kit makes it easy to add a green wall to your house. Suitable for any climbing plant, the system is perfect for creating a maintenance-free support to create your own living green wall. If it consists of a lattice-like structure, bars or uprights, fasteners are not necessary, though they can still be useful. Pull the nylon wire from the centre of the reel and feed through any support vine eyes, before the final vine eye simply thread the nylon wire through one of the large holes in the Gripple tensioner.

Long, pendulous racemes of beautiful, dark violet purple flowers in early summer once established. Wisteria brachybotrys'Okayama' is reasonably vigorous and an ideal for climbing up wires or trellis against a sunny wall or fence. Wisterias are generally pruned twice, once in July and once in February or March depending on the weather. You need to prune before the buds break so those with warm gardens in the south of England may prune in January in good years. Never prune in severe weather, always choose a clement, still day. This will slow the flow of sap down and encourage more flower buds. If you allow your wisteria to go straight up forever you’ll get a few flowers at the very top. You can also coil new leaders round a support - again to slow up the flow of sap - before training them horizontally. This is a good technique on a strong pergola. Pruning wisteria Now you have the basics of growing wisteria, we really hope you’ll feel confident to give it a go. But do remember, while correct training and pruning of wisteria definitely encourages better flowering, these plants are surprisingly forgiving. Eventually you are aiming to end up with a clear framework of horizontal branches off the main upright trunk, with every branch covered with short flowering spurs. It takes a few years but it's very rewarding because you can really see progress every year....and it is SO worth it in the end!Kits range from 1m x 1m up to 3m x 3m. 50cm Spacing: Wire Trellis Kits - Stainless Steel Wire Trellis Options Tip: To view the product code and full product table on mobile please tilt your device to landscape. Installing wide, large-holed netting in front of a boundary wall will offer a convenient face for the vine to climb around.

However, even shoots that are not exactly convenient can be trained without fasteners if the support structure has a lattice-like face. If they resist, make some cuts with the secateurs. Make sure the graft union (the bumpy bit ) is above the ground. Dig a hole as deep as the root ball and two to three times as wide and top up with compost. Place your root ball in the hole - the top of the pot should be level with the top of the soil when you’ve finished. A pole or a narrow pillar will not need any prepping; Wisteria will twine around these, but it is best if the pole is connected to something else, such as an arch, giving room for the flowers to hang. Remember to leave enough wire protruding so you can apply tension later. Repeat this process at the other end of trellis. No matter which type you have, the essentials of training remain the same, as do the essentials of its lush beauty over the spring-summer season. DifficultyTip: To view the product code and full product table on mobile please tilt your device to landscape. 33cm Spacing: Wire Trellis Kits - Stainless Steel Wire Trellis Options I space horizontal wires on either side of the main ‘trunk’ at 30cm intervals up the surface, such as a wall, fence or the sides of a pergola. Tip: To view the product code and full product table on mobile please tilt your device to landscape. Each kit consists of: This method will not work for shoots that are very long and growing off to one side or that seem to have a mind of their own.

Each kit comes complete with a stainless steel stud already fixed at one end of the wire rope, with our innovative compression fitting supplied to attach at the length you require.Ideal for Clematis and wisteria, for supporting raspberries and runner beans in the vegetable garden, and even for creating a framework for vines. Also, the upper branches will have ascended to the top of the real structure and, in going over it, will also provide support, as the climber will partially hang over and off the structure. These considerations are all the more important if you live in a windblown area. Structural Considerations Above shows typical trellis wire plant climbing system layouts for each kit using 500mm spacings between each hub, this can be changed to suit your custom requirements or wall space