Would you like the wisteria on your terrace plant, then make sure that the flooring is easy to clean. After the flowering period, the lush jewelry wilts and falls off. This can sometimes cause large stains if you don't sweep every day.
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What alternative is there to the pergola?
As an alternative to the pergola, you can also let your wisteria entwine on a wall. But it shouldn't be the wall of your house, because it can cause considerable damage there. The wisteria exploits even the smallest cracks in the plaster to grow there. This is how it quickly causes the plaster to flake off. It also presses in rain gutters through its looping growth.
Give that Wisteria on the house wall prefer a climbing aid to the side. However, this should be installed at a sufficiently large distance so that the plant does not bend or dismantle the framework.
As an alternative to the pergola, there are also massive rose arches made of steel and robust fences. Wisteria will even overgrow whole trees if you let it grow. However, young trees do not always survive this attack.
What should I consider when building a climbing aid?
You can buy a ready-made pergola or support structure. However, the self-built variant is more individual. Steel is the ideal material because wisteria develops unimagined forces as it grows. As a rule, a wooden structure cannot withstand these forces. The strips are torn apart and any wires that may be used grow into the shoots and tear.
The essentials in brief:
- strongly looping shoots
- high weight
- strong growth
- Wires grow in easily
- Gutters can be pressed in
- absolutely needs a stable climbing aid
- ideal: foundation firmly anchored in the ground
Tips
If you would like your wisteria to grow on a pergola, make sure that it is particularly stable. A lightweight variant cannot withstand the enormous growth of the wisteria.
