Wisteria

Wisteria bushes are like teenagers: you need to give them boundaries and then strictly enforce those boundaries, or the kids and vines will get all out of control. I want to train my old wisteria to be a tree. I've spent two evenings pruning and cleaning underneath and now have a semblance of a tree-looking plant. The vines were running everywhere and the leaves underneath were inches deep. I kept wondering if there might be a snake in there. There wasn't. I will now need to find some way of supporting the flimsy vines to form a more upright growth.