I was referring to felling a tree with Wysteria Vine climbing in it and probably others beside it. Doesn’t want to let the tree come down!
That makes more sense. After I google searched for pics, I saw some trees. Didn't know how big they actually got. Sorry for the derail clem.
You can grow wisteria as a small 4-6 foot stand alone "tree" like this: (although that looks like it is leaning on a trellis) but you have to prune all the vines that sprout out of it every year and you have to watch for suckers on the ground in the lawn. There was one in the side yard of my previous house. Lots of seed pods to rake up, too. In my current house they were in the full sized trees all the way to the top. I've been battling mine for 20 years. Spraying it with poison, digging up the roots, etc. There's about three acres of it across the street where a house burned down and they had a wisteria arbor that just went wild. All the landscaping (that was huge when the house was still standing) has gotten even huger. Kinda bizarre-looking.
That's what mine looked like, except it was pruned more into a ball shape. Those same suckers coming out of the bottom I had to prune off at least once a year.
Wisteria, but I see that's been said. It's an invasive, a long time ago it was bright here as an ornamental. Its very very invasive. Will take over tracts where it escaped from old home sites. Grows all in the woods in the south. Will top out trees and kill them...100foot tall mature pines even. Not as bad as kudzu but pretty bad. Google that one of you don't know what it is. Another south east Asia gift from our great grandfather's to try to feed cattle and solve erosion problems here in the south.
It doesn't grow like a tree really, I have seen it as big as a tree, 8-10" in diameter, wrapped around trees girdling them. They can tagle up trees so bad that they can be held up by the vines.
Not on the exact scale but yes it's very invasive and VERY big problem. 1,5,20 acre patches. Areas so bad that very few trees will even be in them. When kudzu and wisteria grow together they can choke everything else out and that's about all you will have there.
Those are prunes and trained to do that. That is NOT natural! Those folks are pruning that tree several times a season to keep it in chack and have to fight the suckers with a turf weed control chemical regime to keep it in check and not popping out of the lawn and running a long the ground through the grass.
Transline use to be the old stand by for treating it chemically. Still works. Escort also smokes it pretty good. I bet Garlon 4 or 3a in aquatic environments will put a hammer on it too but probably not my first choice. I would probably tank mix if I was going after just wisteria. If your like me and who I'm employed by you have to make sure your chemical is labeled for it or else your breaking the law, not something I would do as a licensed applicator . Well I let my license lapse cause of various reasons. But I still would allow it if I was overseeing a contract.
I’ve never seen Wisteria or Kudzu. At first I was bummed that we don’t have Wisteria here, but now I’m glad we don’t have either!
As beautiful as it is I would be fine to never see it in the woods or yards again! It's fine in a yard as you see but the problem it it doesn't always stay there. Or someone things it's pretty and plats it at the back of their yard or alone a fence and it escapes! As a Forester I hate dealing with it. I have had many acres of it sprayed with herbicide as well to try to rid it from an area as well.
I can vouch for all the pruning needed to keep a wisteria vine looking like a small tree. They look nice while they are blooming, but that's about the only nice thing I can say about wisteria.
Have taken another truck load plus from the tree, and I bucked it up into some smaller pieces for the landowner. Thinks he is getting an excavator to burry it? As much as I said I wasn't going to get the larger part I'm a glutton for punishment. I believe I will cut that part that stood back up into rounds and then noodle them into smaller pieces to process. That's probably close to two truckloads in that piece alone and it's so close to home.
