Wisteria leaves are been eaten and turning brown

Hi All,

Pretty new to gardening and trying to grow a wisteria to cover a pergolia, I realise this might take some time, my wisteria is approx 2 years old and is in a pot about 500mm Dia and 600mm deep it gets the sun till approx 2pm, I have noticed though something is eating the leaves and also they are going brown in places, see pic attached

I water it every day sometime twice if it has been hot.

Can some one tell me what is possible eating the leaves, why they are brown and why some appear to be shrivelled up any advice would be great

Thanks

 

Good evening Duffy and welcome to the site. I suppose you are not the superb Welsh singer of the same name? However, Your Wisteria isn`t being eaten by anything. The problem is scorch, water droplets have been on the leaves and the sunshine has used them like mini magnifying glasses and burnt the leaves. The pot the plant is in is what? 18" x 20"? Much too small. if it can`t go in the ground then the pot needs to be, AT LEAST double that size.

 

Hi, thanks for the reply and sorry no I am not the welsh singer either lol, although, my singing may scare the birds away!.

Where do I get a pot double that size! for my wisteria then, I don't have the option of placing it in the ground in the back garden, however i have just planted on in the front garden,

Do you know why the leaves are curling up in places (i think there is a photo of one)

Thanks in advance

 

For a bigger pot go to your local garden centre, hopefully.:WINK1: The leaf curl, if there is no sign of greenfly or blackfly, Is caused by leafcurl virus, and there is nothing you can do about it.

 

Not having seen a pic of the whole plant, I would not worry too much about some leaf damage.

Often insects get at the leaves as they are growing, causing holes and distortion which actually grows as the leaf grows.

To give you some idea of Wisteria root growth, I dug out a largish one about 15yrs ago, I still get root suckers coming up on the other side of my pond at least 20ft away from where it was growing.

 

Thanks for your advice, just one last question, when the best time to move the wisteria to a bigger pot, ground is not really an option at this stage:( as i live in a new build house so not many trees in the back garden!

 

Where are you Dai? you're the pot grower.

Personally I wouldn't grow one in a pot however big.

But I think I wouldn't disturb it until early next spring now, just before growth begins.

"not many trees in the back garden"??????

 

Duffy, as Wisteria have just finished flowering NOW is the time to repot it. Go for a pot at least 120 litres in capacity. That should give you 2 years grace.