I saw a packet of Wisteria seed in a garden centre today oddly enough. Most people buy grafted plants as they flower earlier. Wisteria live about 200-400 years so they are not in a hurry to flower, so what your garden centre has said is partly true. You can grow from seed but flowering takes years.

You also don't know what it will be like as a plant, a cutting isa clone of its donor shrub, a seed is from both parents and could be wonderful or weak and feeble.....And anything in between......interestin g though!

I cut a pod from an established wisteria and grew it sucessfully to about 4 feet high but it perished during the winter a few years ago. Anyway it was going to take years to flower.

Yes i have to agree with kildermorie, i have heard it said that growing from seed can be achieved but flowering can take for ever, takeing plants abroad can be difficult these days with all the regulations etc, sometimes i take certain plants over to france mainly perrenials and everytime i have had the van searched they have said its ok, but certain controls are needed to stop pests and deseases spreading, eg Ash chalara, certain plants you have to obtain a european passport maybe enquire at your garden centre or maybe customs.

they do as after all that's how they reproduce in the wild. But you need to check on regs for importing seeds too.

I took a wisteria plant having bubble wraped it and now it is happily growing in morroco! We will see how it does!
The airline were pretty good about it!

Well done.

Bubble wrapped!