The wisteria is not a tree. It is a vigorously growing and often invasive vine. It can be kept in check by training it to grow as a standard, whereby it takes on the appearance of a small tree. Most varieties are hardy to zone 4.
If you are considering growing a wisteria, be sure to buy an established plant or start your own from a healthy cutting. I say this because it can take 10-15 or more years to get a blooming plant from seed.
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When this post was submitted, I didn't have a picture to include. Since then, I took a Wisteria which I grew from seed and kept in a pot for ten years, and gave it it's own place in the yard. It had not bloomed in all those ten years.
With it's new found freedom, I'm hoping it will reward me with a bloom or two, in a few weeks. If it doesn't bloom by the second year, I will prune it's roots. Root pruning a Wisteria is often a sure fire way to force it into bloom.
In time, this baby will become much larger, and will be covered each Spring with hundreds of long, sweet scented, purple panicles.
Yes, those bricks are temporary. Something more tasteful is on the way.
Those ugly 5 gallon buckets? They're temporary, too. They house the rootings several varieties of Grape, which also are being trained as standards.
How nice to actually add information to a previous post!
I believe if more contributors would follow this practice Thrifty tips etc would receive more "visitors" and maybe more people would read everything and maybe vote more often.
Growing along the roads, I thought it was beautiful, until my neighbors passed away and the wisteria was left unchecked. It is in trees and very invasive coming into my trees. The seeds falling sounds like small firecrackers at night. The wisteria is killing pine trees by girdling them and growing so high it blocks the sun and rain also a reason they are dying.
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