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    Quite a sad day

    I moved into my current house way back in 1982 and a couple of years later we bought a tiny half dead looking wisteria from a local garden centre. I planted and chucked horse muck all around it and over the years it grew bigger and bigger.

    I have a 8ft high pergola than runs for 20 meters against the back wall of the house and last year it had four trunks, all about 3" in diameter that ran the full length. Every May it was a mass of pale blue flowers and it was just gorgeous and I often flew back from Spain just to look and marvel at it. I pruned it twice yearly and it got better and better every year.

    I went out a few hours ago to give it the usual March prune and it's dead, totally and utterly dead. Evidently Wisterias are prone to this.

    I have hacked it back to a few feet above the ground hoping it will generate some new growth but I am not holding out much hope for it.

    Rather sad really because at the age of 69, I will never see it in its full glory ever again.

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    That's a shame, anything to do with the late snow this year?

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    To be honest I do not have a clue. We have had worst winters than this and my Magnolia (which is more delicate) is beginning to show signs of life. I guess it was just meant to be.

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    Any chance that you are over-reacting and maybe panicking, Mick P?

    It's not likely to be an outbreak of wisteria?

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    No need to be whysterical

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    Any pictures of it in all its glory?

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    We had an Acer in a pot that was at least 25 years old. That died last year. Checking up on the net it appears trees/shrubs are just like us. They just get old and die.

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    Shame about that Mick. We had a Wisteria that just stopped flowering one year and never did again.

    I've just been hacking ivy off my apple trees, a right job!
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    Sorry for your loss Mick.

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    Try not to pine for it too much Mick otherwise you'll just go barking mad.

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    A really fugly tree the wisteria.

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    FFS it's a plant (or was anyway. Now it's a stick).

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    Aw c'mon guys, I’m stumped as to what to say, so leaf it out. He needs specialist advice and needs to get to the root of the problem.
    Last edited by Motman; 23rd March 2018 at 19:57.

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    It's gone to the big forrest in the sky.
    Cashed in it's chips

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    If you have a fireplace,you can always put it to a good use and move on. Ashes to ashes and all that ;)
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    Some sense of reality here

    The things that happen to people on a daily basis, like dealin with a bad health diagnosis, a loved one dieing or a painful divorce. These are things to be sad about, get a grip man and give thanks to your being alive on this planet.

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    Ignore the non posts here, I know what you mean, we have a wisteria growing over our pergola that covers our patio dining area, it’s lovely when it blooms (a nightmare as they all drop), but gives a lovely shade over our eating area & the cats love playing with the bits we cut back.

    Our garden wouldn’t be the same without it, we moved into our house 10yrs ago and it was 10yrs in situ, so appreciate what needs to happen to replace it, time isn’t something you can speed up.


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    The tone of some of the replies seems to be influenced more by the identity of the topic creator than by the subject matter.

    It might "only" be a plant, but it's a plant that he has cultivated for 36 years and forms part of what makes his home. Anyway, as you were, rip the pish.

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    Wasn't like the fella was suggesting a candlelit vigil, just lamenting the loss of something he'd put near four decades of work into. 'Humour' is one thing, but as regards other posts I will never understand what it is about the internet that needlessly brings out the inner ballbag in people.

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    I'd take a leaf out of Hood's book.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stringer View Post
    Wasn't like the fella was suggesting a candlelit vigil, just lamenting the loss of something he'd put near four decades of work into. 'Humour' is one thing, but as regards other posts I will never understand what it is about the internet that needlessly brings out the inner ballbag in people.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hood View Post
    Rest easy
    A gentle ribbing is forum tradition and once one pun is made traditionally others will follow.
    No ill will is meant so don't fret
    Sorry, maybe could've expressed myself more clearly earlier - the themed puns I have zero issue with, it's clear they're just made in jest. Cheers.

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    Bloody Hell Mick. Your house has a 20M back wall?
    Where do you live, a corridor?

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    Quote Originally Posted by langdalematt View Post
    The things that happen to people on a daily basis, like dealin with a bad health diagnosis, a loved one dieing or a painful divorce. These are things to be sad about, get a grip man and give thanks to your being alive on this planet.
    We all feel about things differently, what is important to you might not be to someone else. Nothing wrong with being sad that something has gone that you liked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alpha4 View Post
    FFS it's a plant (or was anyway. Now it's a stick).
    Actually it's now chippings as I put it through the shredder.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mick P View Post
    Actually it's now chippings as I put it through the shredder.
    OK Mr P. Maybe I was a bit harsh earlier. I know humans cans get attached to things.

    How about some of this?

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Artificia...-/142514817385

    Cheating, I know, but it won't die off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    We all feel about things differently, what is important to you might not be to someone else. Nothing wrong with being sad that something has gone that you liked.
    ^^^^Agreed, well it had to happen sooner or later.
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    Despite my flippant riposte earlier in the thread, I do have empathy for sadness due to the irrevocable departure of an object held in great esteem.

    As one of our finest philosophical lyricists one wrote (about a much-loved pair of jeans) "the patches make the goodbye harder still".

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    Hi Mick, that is sad, but plant another one and nurture it. In a couple of years it will start growing just like the old one did all those years ago. It will be a pleasure in itself for you for years to come and you’ll know that one day maybe someone else will be enjoying it just like you did.

    To every season etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by langdalematt View Post
    The things that happen to people on a daily basis, like dealin with a bad health diagnosis, a loved one dieing or a painful divorce. These are things to be sad about, get a grip man and give thanks to your being alive on this planet.
    We hear about dead dogs here on a regular basis.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mick P View Post
    Actually it's now chippings as I put it through the shredder.
    You didn’t hang about Mick
    Quite right. Onwards and upwards.
    It’s what it would have wanted.

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    The same happens with your posts here.......lol

    Quote Originally Posted by Mick P View Post
    Actually it's now chippings as I put it through the shredder.
    When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........

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    I got back into the UK yesterday totally knackered and did not go into the garden until today to check on things.

    The Wisteria is alive (much to my surprise) and is throwing up long branches that are already 6ft long and its got another six months of growth still to go. In other words its growing like stink.

    Sometimes things do go right.

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    Good news - I know what you mean I have an exotic plant that got hit badly by the snow despite being covered and it looks very sorry for itself and I hope it recovers. I think seeing anything you have nurtured dying is sad, obviously much towards the left side of the continuum.


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