Wisteria growing into a Golden weeping Willow

Hi Team

Hope you keeping warm and you have planted all your spring bulbs......

Thoughts please....

I have a wisteria at the bottom of the garden which used to grow into a ash tree right next to my fence but the tree belonged to next door....

I realised a piece had gone into the tree and had a ladder out and the guy next door came out said they were happy with it growing in the tree and the flowers looked amazing dangling down from the bare branches (to be honest it had more flowerer their side than mine ... )

Update several years later next door had moved out and in the meantime the wisteria had easily gone 50 feet 115.24 meters and they had decided to build decking and took the tree out and told me my "vine" was going to be cut down !! ... not a lot I could do !

the wisteria has now decided to grow into the Weeping willow

This is where I need your thought .

Spruce

 

Much as I like wisteria growing through trees I think they look better when growing over a pergola.
I think you could restrict the wisteria to some extent if you don't want it to take over the willow completely.

 

I voted yes. The only thing that looks better through a willow than wisteria, is a chain saw......I do not like them!

 

If it were a goat willow I'd say leave it to it but I think it will ruin the natural shape of a weeping willow wouldn't look right to me.

 

Voted yes as I like to see experiments in my own garden so think it would be interesting to see how it goes. You could cut the wisteria down if you decide its not working out.

I have a couple of Virginia creeper vines growing up a cherry and a crab apple tree and they do provide some interesting autumn colour but not got very far up the established trees so far to look as good as some of my neighbours cherry trees which are supporting Virginia creepers. They did have a head start on my efforts.

Pegged down a wisteria stem growing near the ground earlier in the year in the hope to get a few roots and make another plant with the idea of growing it up a big ceanothus shrub that I have. I read that ceanothus don't last very long so at this stage it might be a good scaffold for the new wisteria to grow into a tree if I get the layering to work and have one to plant when I check the point I pegged the stem down next spring.

Happy gardening!

 

I think the branches and leaves of a weeping willow are too soft/flexible to cope with a wisteria. As Perki has said, it would ruin the natural shape.

 

Having seen the thickness, strength and weight of the older stems on the two wisteria we inherited when we moved here 7 years ago I wouldn't let it grow into a weeping willow. Either keep it trimmed to the existing support framework or build a decent frame for it to grow along.

 

I absolutely agree with @Obelix-Vendée for the reasons she has given. The wisteria will be too heavy for all but the biggest of weeping willows.