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their thick, white, fleshy roots completely fill the pot. I'm never sure quite where the compost goes, but remove the pot from the rootball of an established plant and almost all you'll see is roots, with little compost remaining - just what's required

encourages flowers to form at the base of each of these pruned shoots.I regularly hear of people whose wisteria won't flower, but my plant flowers very reliably. Perhaps growing it in a pot helps, along with correct pruning, and feeding with a high potash

was that hand pruning removed many small, weak shoots — shoots which wouldn't have been pruned away by the hedgecutter. Left in place, these small sheets each produce a few leaves. These leaves produce more food — through the process of photosynthesis

, then leave the main shoot to grow and remove any side shoots. Let each plant concentrate on forming a single stem and the resulting flowers should be bigger. You'll get less of them, but these long-stemmed fragrant flowers will look perfect in a vase.Some say

year when I got really obsessed trying to grow the very best sweet peas – just like the show growers. To produce flowers with really long straight stems you need to grow plants as single stemmed cordons. Each plant is only allowed to produce one shoot