Blog the Wisteria

Oh that is just beautiful, I love their flowers. Just makes me sigh !

That is stunning bjs :-))))

Ooooooooooooooooo what wonderful Photos Bjs i love Wisterias :)

Lucky you, it must look amazing. They are long livers arent they. Stunning.

You are lucky having free wisteria bjs, and so established you don't have the worry of getting it started off..:o)

Yes Dawnsaunt
the base of this one has a trunk like a tree
I think some of the one you see on big house may well be a hundred years plus .not sure when they first came here from China but that would give a clue.

Just beautiful Bjs, at the risk of repeating myself,as I keep saying on other wisteria photo's...I love them!! I recently posted a picture of one I used to have.

What a beautiful freebie.

I am so envious and very pleased for you and your neighbours.I religously prune mine year after year and this year having been a bit more savage than usual last August I was so excited to see what appeared to be flower buds. Alas no such luck just more leaves. I am hoping that it is just an age thing and they will eventually flower for me. The plants are perfectly healthy they just do not flower.

How lovely to 'share' this with your neighbour, sadly our neighbours do not grow anything at all, just lawn. :0(. Lovely photos and I bet the scent is fab.

Wonderful !

That's amazing, i wonder how many feet it is in length now ..... it likes to travel !!!

Wonderful . I love the colour of Wisteria, and the shape of the flowers. I haven't seen a pink one.

Dylanddog
It is mine i planted it back in the 70s I share it
Grandmadge
the neighbour whose Hawthorn it grows on, there garden is just the same she is the one that puts piles of bread and seed all over the ground feeding every thing including rats on occasions.her husband is a so called nurseryman.lol.

Sorry, read it wrong and assumed it had come from a neighbours garden. It's beautiful and I bet the neighbours enjoy it :~))

Sorry, I too read it wrong and thought it was from your neighbours garden. It's lovely anyway!...:o)

lovely wisteria...........

Lucky you its a beautiful free plant...

I've just come in from my gardening class. We were learning about wall shrubs and climbers tonight. I was able to ask about the lack of flowers on my wisterias. The book says prune in August. They have beauties at Suntrap and they only prune in February. I can't wait to see the result next year.

Scotsgran. Its not so much when as how, they flower out of second year buds..you could compare to an apple when you prune you take away the soft growth leaving the bud on mature wood, its much the same.

Yes you are right, he did say cut back to above the flower bud.

Glad we have that sorted

He actually showed us how and it is not always easy to translate knowledge to the written page if you are not used to having to give that level of written instruction. I consider myself a good amateur but what my basic gardening course is showing is that nothing beats hands on experience.

Scotsgran could not agree more hands beat books a lot of the time, sorry if that sounded a bit abrupt ,if you new me you would know its just my fun way of saying things,don't be put off by it
Brian

Oh how beautiful.... the 70's,and to think mine should look like this and Ive only just brought it lol......Im learning fast here on this site :-)

Dee2uk
This is the waiting bit now they can take a while to start flowering.The pink one I put a picture on yesterday nearly got dug out ,i threatened with all sorts of horrible deaths eventually telling it that it was his last chance and low and behold the following spring it performed that was 5 years from planting, not saying they all take that long but some do.as for the size not everyone would want it that big ,it has one corner of the garden where its in charge

lol Put off by you? and you bending over backwards to finish what I started - never. You will maybe be required to threaten mine next year if my hacking them back last year and then pruning properly next time doesn't work. Be happy I'm off to look at your pink one as I have never seen one in flower. I only saw a white one for the first time yesterday.

lovely wisteria, i see one near me and its a mass of flowers, so pretty ;o))

Your Wisteria is beautiful and what a display it gives you may be one day mine might flower lol.

BJS this is so beautiful .

I saw a lovely small wisteria shrub in our local garden center today .

But was not sure if I had room in my garden for it I would love to make room.

Could I keep contained in a large pot.

Sorry to but in.

Scotkat there are some new varieties in the G.Centres now bred for growing pots a couple were shown on GOY back in May.google it wisteria for pots i am sure you will find them.You would not want to try mine in pots.lol