Moving wisteria plants...?

thriftwizard

We've just signed the lease on a half-allotment plot just up the road from our home; we have a 110m² plot on a site on the other side of town, which we'll be giving up later on this year as the smaller plot will be much easier to manage; I can be there in under a minute and barrow heavy stuff up there rather than needing to drive all the time. Also, these plots have been in cultivation since the dissolution of the monasteries (quite literally) and the soil is lovely, whereas the bigger plot is on the edge of an old pasture field & is a bit of a nightmare, although productive, with soil so heavy you could bake a dinner service out of it, a hard-pan 4" down, & galloping agricultural weeds and pests always bursting, suckering & burrowing through from the ditch & bank along the longest edge, shading half the plot quite deeply & eating seedlings as soon as they show their heads.

But the smaller plot has spent the last 20 years as the previous tenant's garden; she's now bedridden & can't cope with it any more, sadly. It's beautiful, and has a brilliant (if a tad dilapidated) greenhouse/shed which we'll be using to the full, and we can use lots of the lovely hellebores, hyacinths, lilies etc. in our garden at home. But there are also 3 huge wisterias, which are actually breaking the tenancy agreement; nothing over 6' high, produce & cut-flowers for the home only. I know wisterias are very beautiful, and excellent for birds & bees, but they can't stay there, shading my crops & hogging the nutrients! (Though they might just have to be cut back hard for now, whilst we work on stabilising the infrastructure & making the layout a bit more logical.)

So my question is, if we try to remove them & give them away, are they likely to survive? They were originally in pots but have obviously sent roots right down from those. I have no idea what colours they are, but I do know they have reliably flowered year on year where they are. (Unlike our one at home, which throws out a couple of flowers every 5 years or so but expends a lot of energy trying to break into the house...) And if we do manage to get them out with a relatively intact rootball, do we need to wrap that in sacking or something to maximise the chances of them living? Or are they just destined for the tip?

twopenny

Someone will tell you about moving them. I'd suspect you can as they are tough plants.

In case it's any help I've seen a gorgeous low hedge made from them kept long and narrow. 
Also small trees.

I'd certainly take one if someone offered me 

Working_Mum

Wisteria can be quite temperamental if moved and are known to "sulk" for a while. Having said that I think it's definitely worth trying to dig them out and either try them somewhere else or maybe offer them free on FB M4rketplace or maybe Freecycle?? 

I planted a wisteria in my garden when we moved in 4 years ago and it has failed to thrive so I plan on moving it this year - my neighbour has a beautiful one on a wall with the same orientation which I planted mine but mine isn't playing ball so a move is in order for him!