Grow wisteria yourself as a bonsai

the root of the wisteria are a mixture of tap and shallow roots. You should keep this fact in mind when training to bonsai and choose a correspondingly deep and wide planter.

Are some varieties particularly suitable as bonsai?

In principle, you can try out anyone variety of the wisteria to grow a bonsai. However, the types of Japanese wisteria to be suitable. However, you should pay attention to a harmonious overall picture. The Wisteria macrobotrys has extremely long flower panicles and the Chinese wisteria quite large leaves. Both of these make bonsai training difficult.

When do I have to start cutting?

Since the wisteria right growing rapidly you should start targeted cutting quite early. If you aim for a final size of around 40 to 60 centimeters, you will most likely achieve a harmonious relationship between flowers, leaves and branches.

What do I have to consider when caring for a wisteria bonsai?

Important at care wisteria as bonsai are two things above all. On the one hand, the bonsai needs in summer and during the Heyday quite a lot of water. If you don't want to keep checking it, place the planter on a saucer filled with water. In this way the plant takes care of itself.

On the other hand, the wisteria does not bloom if it is too often transplanted or cut incorrectly. Always leave enough flower buds when pruning and repot your wisteria bonsai only every three to five years.

The essentials in brief:

• select refined wisteria
• start cutting early
• cut the basic shape first, then the maintenance cut
• Pay attention to a harmonious overall picture
• blooms only after a few years