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This monster now ranges over two neighbours gardens as well as mine. I planted over a small pergola in the 70s it has reached up and now sits across the top of one neighbours hawthorn hedge around twenty feet high,in another direction my friends have it running at least thirty feet trained along a low stone wall ,(they are a bit posh) they do tidy.So here is what it looks like in my garden today


There is a nice pink one but I chopped back savagely taking away a lot of the second year wood which put pay to most of the flowers this year,it can be seen in last years pictures


Hywel this is the pink one take a couple of years ago
It did not work will put it on seperate

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

26 May, 2010

 

That is stunning bjs :-))))

26 May, 2010

 

Ooooooooooooooooo what wonderful Photos Bjs i love Wisterias :)

26 May, 2010

 

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

26 May, 2010

 

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

26 May, 2010

bjs
Bjs
 

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.

26 May, 2010

 

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.

26 May, 2010

 

What a beautiful freebie.

26 May, 2010

 

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.

26 May, 2010

 

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.

26 May, 2010

 

Wonderful !

26 May, 2010

 

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

27 May, 2010

 

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

27 May, 2010

bjs
Bjs
 

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.

27 May, 2010

 

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

27 May, 2010

 

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

27 May, 2010

 

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

27 May, 2010

 

Lucky you its a beautiful free plant...

27 May, 2010

 

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.

27 May, 2010

bjs
Bjs
 

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.

28 May, 2010

 

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

28 May, 2010

bjs
Bjs
 

Glad we have that sorted

28 May, 2010

 

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.

28 May, 2010

bjs
Bjs
 

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

28 May, 2010

 

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 :-)

28 May, 2010

bjs
Bjs
 

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

28 May, 2010

 

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.

28 May, 2010

 

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

29 May, 2010

 

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

3 Jun, 2010

 

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.

31 Jul, 2011

bjs
Bjs
 

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

31 Jul, 2011

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