living with wisteria

by Sharon Santoni

I realise that the title of this blogpost may sound like a piece from a medical journal, but sometimes when people ask me, amazed, how I manage to “live with that wisteria?!” , it tends to make me feel as if they compare this beautiful plant to a disease, only mildly contagious but nevertheless bothersome!

I love our wisterias.   They were in flower when we moved into our home, and their perfume always reminds me of that day, so exciting, when I turned the key in the door and went through the house, throwing the windows wide open as we waited for the removal trucks to turn up with our furniture.

When we bought our house so many years ago, there were already three well established wisteria on the property.  On the stone pillar of the main gate, across the end of the laundry room and of course against the facade of the house.

Wisteria is an ambitious plant, there is no denying that.   A few years ago we provided the wisteria on the house with a solid frame to weave its way around, and ever since it covers the front of the house each spring, and does its best to twirl in through the open windows.    The new leaves and tender branches can most certainly grow more than six inches in a day.

We cut the branches back around our windows at least twice each summer, and in theory give the whole plant a hard prune late winter, around February.  I have to tell you that due to severe weather, we missed the winter prune this year, but that doesn’t seem to have affected the flowering season.

We generally get a second more timid flowering in the summer, but it is the foliage that is so pretty until the fall.

So is it a difficult plant to live with?    If you prefer a very structured and formal planting design to your garden then you can keep the wisteria tightly trained to a wall, but if like me, you have a penchant for a romantic tumbling garden then wisteria is ideal.

Words of warning are required when it comes to shutters, gutters or railings.  Never underestimate the strength of this plant.   It has  unhooked gutters here, and crushed a zinc water pipe as if it were paper.   I have heard it can do the same thing with iron railings, but I haven’t tested that one personally.

When we cut it back around the windows, we are very careful with the tendrils that are growing through the shutter slats, and around the hinges.

Would I recommend growing wisteria? yes without a doubt.  Along with a rambling rose, it is probably my favourite climber .    And I’d love to know if you love it too, and if it grows well in your part of the world.

Have a happy and fragrant weekend, and thank you for reading me !

77 comments

Susan May 5, 2018 - 2:57 pm

I love our wisterias as well! It is much smaller in scale than yours as it is growing on a “pavilion”. I love to let it go “wild” sending its curling tendrils up into the rafters. I can smell it floating on the breeze throughout my back flower beds… such a delight. Very romantic and mixes well with my climbing roses and cottage garden style.

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David Phillips May 5, 2018 - 2:57 pm

Hi Sharon,

Thanks for providing or provloking my first chuckle of the day when I got up at 5am and your lovely blog post was in my RSS feed! And the photos are very lovely!

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Dottie Monta May 5, 2018 - 3:02 pm

Love the wisteria. AND your dancing columbines! (We have ivy and climbing white roses, but no wisteria. Yet!)

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Marilyn May 5, 2018 - 3:07 pm

I love seeing wisteria and your pictures are just beautiful. I have heard so much about the destruction they can do on a house that I have been afraid of growing it on or near my house.

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Penny at Enjoying The Simple Things May 5, 2018 - 3:07 pm

It is such a beautiful plant.

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Taste of France May 5, 2018 - 3:13 pm

It’s gorgeous. I have been looking for a spot in the garden to plant a wisteria, and now I’m going to keep it well away from the windows!

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AJ Aubrey May 5, 2018 - 3:16 pm

Hi Sharon! GORGEOUS!
I’ve had wisteria for 10 years and only saw about 3 blooms☹️ Yours are exquisite. I’ve moved to a fixer-upper in Lynnfield (almost done). Wish me luck, I’m going to try them again!
PS. I love your store!

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sharon santoni May 5, 2018 - 3:51 pm

This must be very frustrating ! A friend planted 3 wisterias and one never bloomed. If I were you I’d be tempted to start again ! 🙂

Sharon

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Gail May 9, 2018 - 8:52 am

Our Wisteria is 25 years old and has yet to bloom once!. It has shade until late afternoon and grows lush foliage each year but no blooms or fragrance.

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Pearl April 28, 2020 - 2:16 am

Your sister is will not bloom if it does not get full sun.

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Janie Currie-Marcinko May 5, 2018 - 3:17 pm

Loving your wisteria clad home! We too love the coming of Spring for it welcomes the “Arrival of Wisteria”! We keep ours “in check” as the tendrils love grasping whatever is close by but it is so beautiful …. Just ask our colossal bees..never before seen the size of them, only when this ladened “grape-cluster-type” wisteria flowers …. “step back” with your camera for the bees are very protective of wisteria!! Houston, Texas

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Claire May 5, 2018 - 3:37 pm

My daughter had wisteria growing over her patio supported by an arbor. Beautiful full coverage. She loved it until the morning that a lizard fell out of it into her first cup of coffee! Had it been her second cup, the wisteria might still be there!

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Betsy May 5, 2018 - 3:42 pm

I was wondering about snakes getting into it myself. Now I guess I kinda know. Snakes usually follow lizards. I must admit I chuckled a bit when I read this.

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Sandy August 31, 2019 - 3:15 pm

36love my wisteria didn’t know when I bought it it would take 7 years to bloom we have to have it cut back every year or it grows over the roof . I have a new problem not a root but one of the tendrils has worked it way in around a sewage pipe into the basement how do I get rid of it permanently (my husband is freaking out) or at least a few years. I was thinking I should just dig that piece up from the outside. I’d really appreciate your help thank you sandy

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Janie Currie-Marcinko May 5, 2018 - 3:46 pm

Imagining this hilarious happening of the lizard and cup-of-coffee, I have 2nd thought of adding the pergola over our terrace attached to our home…it was a lovely scene but I feared the big bees…and we do have many small lizards! You have given reason why this would not be possible here, a lively time however!

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Janie Currie-Marcinko May 5, 2018 - 3:51 pm

Oh, my Lord, reading the possiblity of snakes!…a week ago we had a large water moccasin on the terrace….I’d faint at the thought of it climbing the lovely wisteria! ..0hhhh!

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Colleen May 5, 2018 - 6:53 pm

My parents magnificent wisteria found its way through their living room wall. My artistic Father loved how it looked so much, he allowed it to stay in place for a bit. A favorite childhood memory.

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Teresa May 7, 2018 - 3:44 pm

Oh,noooo. No, no,no. Nothing should interefere with that first cup of comfort in the morning.

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Jen May 9, 2018 - 6:21 am

Hahahah .. Claire, your comment has absolutely lifted my “grey day”!! Fair enough too ~ in the FIRST cup of coffee grrrr… My daughter has recently purchased a beautiful, old house in Adelaide and with a traditional ‘bull nose’ verandah, she is fully intending to cover it in wisteria. But I must show her this comment of yours first …(still laughing :)))
Jen x

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hedi patrick May 5, 2018 - 3:39 pm

In South Carolina we have the saying: Wisteria can pull a house down. Here some fear it as much as they do kudzu.

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DD May 6, 2018 - 9:10 pm

Same in North Carolina. The trio to avoid: kudzu, ivy, and wisteria. It will burrow into underground plumbing and wells too, I was told when I considered planting wisteria. Love the fragrance. Best wishes!

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Julie Purdey Kyabram Australia May 5, 2018 - 3:42 pm

We too have a luxuriant wisteria which grows all over a pergola and along a garden fence. It flowers twice a year and I pretty much let it have its head, only reining it in when it gets too bossy! However, we have now sold our house and large garden and will move to the city to be close to family. Let’s hope the young couple who have bought it will see the beauty and not problems.

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Lyn May 5, 2018 - 4:00 pm

I live in Minnesota, and have tried to grow it over an arbor. It grew very well for several years, but never blossomed. Now it is dying back, and I don’t know why. Maybe not enough sun? They told me at the nursery it can take 5 to 7 years to blossom, and it’s been at least that. I don’t think it will ever work in my yard. Very sad!! Yours is so beautiful. I grow English ivy on my house and garage. People love it!! I have had my gardens on garden tours and always wished to have blooming Wisteria!

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Alice Genzlinger May 5, 2018 - 5:12 pm

Your temperatures in Minn are to cold to allow it to set bloom. Sorry.

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Roberta May 5, 2018 - 4:10 pm

Love your blog….miss you talking about your darling dogs!

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Ruth Gardner Lamere May 5, 2018 - 4:17 pm

I named our house in Massachusetts, built in 1727, “Wisteria Cottage” Because we have climbing wisteria all over the back of the house, which leads into our rather large kitchen. It is also on the other side of the house where our dining room is and, you are so correct: it grows like mad during the spring and summer months. I think yours is more prolific because your growing season is longer. It is a joy to walk up the pathway from where we park our cars (the house is on the top of a hill) and smell that heavenly smell.

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Kris Calahane May 5, 2018 - 4:18 pm

Our wisteria was also here along our back fence when we bought the house. We have trained it to climb onto a pergola over a swing, but It LOVES to run up the neighbor’s tree, and the foliage is so similar that you can’t see it until it flowers! I couldn’t live without it, thank you for your trimming tricks! My daughter and I just spent a week in Paris, and hope to come back and see more of France someday.

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Gayle May 5, 2018 - 4:18 pm

Always such beauty xo

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Our French Oasis May 5, 2018 - 4:20 pm

We have two wisteria here, one around the summer kitchen which is a pale pink and the more typical purple one which climbs all over the front of the house. It is very well established, decades old and was here long before we bought the house. Two of our children have windows overlooking the front and the wisteria tries to climb in every summer, they declare theirs to be the best bedrooms in the house! I love it more than anything.

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Susan May 5, 2018 - 4:26 pm

Hello Sharon. We live in the North East of England. I planted a Wisteria four years ago and have waited for it to flower. Being a typical Aries, this has been no mean feat! Fingers crossed, and with a daily inspection of the buds, looking good for flowers this year, can’t wait. We have just purchased another to grow as a standard. Best Wishes Sue

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Esther George May 5, 2018 - 4:27 pm

Hi Sharon, I love your Wisteria, we did have one in our garden it was beautiful and the perfume heavenly, my husband had cut it into shape that I compared to Monet’s Bridge, but all the “garden experts” warned of its intrusive habits we had to remove it. We still have an invasion of its suckers. We have a rambling Clematis Montana Elizabeth it has delicate pink flowers 4 pettels beautiful perfume and of course there are the roses. Thank you for sharing beauty. Till next time, regards Esther from Sydney. PS hope you are having a lovely weekend.

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Regina May 5, 2018 - 4:33 pm

Your wisteria looks stunning!
Our well established one had absolutely no blossoms this year and I wonder what happened…. 🙁
As always, I pruned it in February. I really miss the blossoms, the fragrance and the bumble bees.

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Vicky from Athens May 5, 2018 - 4:42 pm

Wisteria , to me, is very beautiful and fragrant…but oh, so invasive. Here in the South I think most people consider it a pest. One can drive down a road in the countryside in springtime and see it growing wild in the woods and draped all over the trees. But I still love it!

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Rob May 5, 2018 - 4:54 pm

I didn’t realise wisteria has a fragrance! I’ve never been closer than admiring it from the footpath, draped along a verandah…

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Sylvia Paisley-Gee May 5, 2018 - 4:58 pm

For me I have a love/hate relationship with Wisteria, only because when I purchased a historic old building many years ago, it had been allowed to take over the outside stairs to the apartment and had damaged the mortar of the bricks on that side plus ruined the stairs. That said, trimmed back and all the issues addressed, it was a beautiful look against the old bricks and people loved to take their photo under the Wisteria against the bricks. I opened an antique/art gallery and appropriately named it Wisteria Emporium. Many times I miss that old building and that wisteria. Love your house and how the wisteria so romantically charms it.

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Kaye May 5, 2018 - 5:03 pm

Your wisteria is beautiful! Where I live in Provence we have one which has flowered really well this year . . . I think it loved all the rain we have been having. It is however, somewhat troublesome when over a very large terrace dining table . . . flowers, pollen and then leaves tumble down! And if you have allergy issues then stock up on some homeopathic remedies to take them all away whilst you enjoy this beautiful plant.

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bonnie groves poppe May 8, 2018 - 11:23 am

Hello Kaye, I too am in Provence with my wisteria! It winds its way up the drainpipe if I don’t stop it, and comes in the windows and messes with the shutters. It is beautiful in the spring and is planted with a white banksia rose, they look great together on the pergola up against the house. It blooms on old wood, so if it is pruned too late in the spring the flowers will be cut off. It is definitely a plant that must be maintained.
bonnie in the vaucluse

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Jen May 9, 2018 - 6:43 am

Hi Bonnie ~ gosh I envy all you girls ‘living in Provence’ .. Thank you for mentioning when and HOW to prune wisteria. I have planted two over a pergola, one going really well, the other making up it’s mind! I had heard the way you prune will affect flowering, so now I understand, re. flowers on old wood. I will make sure I do it in winter in that case.
Jen.
Willunga.
South Australia.

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joie May 5, 2018 - 5:48 pm

I am only 4 blocks from the ocean, so not so well here. I have star jasmine taking over everything and it blooms almost all year. In the valley about 5 miles from here it does quite well. I think it needs a cold winter and warm summer. But I do love the look of it.

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Jan May 5, 2018 - 6:05 pm

Our beautiful wisteria that covers our terrace in the summer,so we can eat outside, had to be it cut back last autumn and this year hasent flowered. I miss that wonderful parfumé and colour.
Hopefully it will flower again next year.

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Elizabeth May 5, 2018 - 6:40 pm

I live near Portland, Oregon and our wisteria are in full bloom currently. We also have several lilac plants, in bloom as well. So shades of lavender are everywhere as well as the beautiful fragrances!

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Leslie in Oregon May 7, 2018 - 11:19 am

We live in Portland, Oregon. Right now, the wisteria running along the front and one side of our house is blooming, and the garden is full of flowering lilacs, bleeding hearts, quince, viburnum, azaleas and rhododendrons. I am always surprised by just how lovely Spring is!

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Lauri May 5, 2018 - 7:22 pm

I live in Quincy Massachusetts, outside of Boston and we had a gorgeous Wisteria that I was absolutely in love with. It grew over an arbor and along a fence the whole length of the back yard. The color and fragrance were heavenly. It did though, take over. It became a threat to the fence and arbor structures, the neighbors property and also our foundation. The tendrils would find there way into everything.
It was such a sad time when we had to have it removed, (which proved to be a very difficult task). If I had a huge field out back I would replant on on a heavy arbor but never close to the house again unfortunately.

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Sabrina May 5, 2018 - 8:58 pm

I Love Wisteria — And I love that wisteria greeted you when you moved into your beautiful house.

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Audrey May 5, 2018 - 9:09 pm

I too love Wisteria.We live near La Rochelle, in SW France, Like you, Sharon, we have a stone house with similar windows and doors, and I love the way it has grown across the French doors and hangs down loosely so that it is visible from inside. The foliage is equally as attractive as the flowers.

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DeAnna May 5, 2018 - 9:47 pm

I love Wisteria. We live in California, US and it grows really well here. I don’t have it on my lot but our next door neighbors did for many years. It was along the facade of their home too. Beautiful and fragrant.

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Delaine May 5, 2018 - 10:01 pm

I love it! And I appreciate that you do, too, so that you can share the loveliness!

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Elaine May 5, 2018 - 10:33 pm

I grew a wisteria and when it flowered we celebrated with a bottle of champagne, this became tradition. Then 2 years ago it all od=f a sudden died, much grief! We still have the champagne isn memory!

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Natalie May 5, 2018 - 10:35 pm

I absolutely love wisteria! My husband finally gave into having one in a pot, though I have a sneaking suspicion that the wisteria will bust out some day. One day I will move it to it’s own spot with an arbor of it’s own. I love “unruly” plants. Over-pruned boxy bushes/shrubs are not my thing. Forsythia and Weigela bushes should be as cascading waterfalls. It’s more magical that way!

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Kathy May 6, 2018 - 12:20 am

I wish I could post a picture! We have just built a wisteria arbour – a very solid affair – and my plants are only small at the moment. I can’t wait for them to grow and cover the whole structure. The columns are white concrete, and one side has a rock wall and iron gate for the vegetable garden. I love it, and can’t wait to see it covered in wisteria one day.

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Susan B. May 6, 2018 - 3:34 am

I adore wisteria, but it’s hard to grow in our climate. Yours is beautiful!!

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Colleen Taylor May 6, 2018 - 6:15 am

I absolutely love love love wisteria, especially yours Sharon. I don’t think we can grow them in Arizona but I must look into it. It certainly wouldn’t last in the hot summer season. I’d love to have some somewhere around here. They are glorious on and around your home.

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Cecelia Weeks May 6, 2018 - 6:25 am

There used to be a huge tree with about a 3 foot diameter in a nearby town. The tree was about 300 years old and I believe the wisteria that covered it were as equally aged. I used to go out of my way in the spring/summer just to see it. It was a sight to behold! Sadly, a hurricane came through one year and wiped out both the tree and the vine. It still makes me sad.

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Jan Drury May 6, 2018 - 6:27 am

I had a beautiful wisteria. I trained it up as a standard, on a metal pole with a rose surround. It took 8 years to flower, my husband threatened to dig it out, as a waste of time. So I put the axe beside it and kept telling it to flower or else I would use the axe. I flowered beautifully for years after that, flowers stunning and perfume just beautiful, plus plenty of pruning.

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T.M. Arthur May 6, 2018 - 11:11 am

My husband and I will be acquiring a garden next Spring and I’d certainly like to give this a go and have the wisteria draped around the window – without that backdrop it wouldn’t quite have the same charm. I believe that with the correct coordination and maintenance it could be simply lovely. I love it.

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Jodashde May 6, 2018 - 1:16 pm

I love love love wisteria! But here in the States, the plants are covered with bumble bees. Do you have them and how do you keep them on the vines and not coming in through those gorgeous, expansive windows?

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bonnie groves poppe May 8, 2018 - 11:27 am

Here in Provence we have the big black carpenter bees, which are sometimes mistakenly called bumblebees. They love the wisteria but seldom come in. If they do, they leave pretty quickly. They are not aggressive and the males cannot sting. The females can but don’t. I love all of the bees and have encouraged them with bee houses, etc. Don’t worry about them.
bonnie in the Vaucluse

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Kerry L O'Gorman May 6, 2018 - 4:47 pm

I concure wholeheartedly! I love rambling, controlled chaos! Have you heard of this wisteria? https://deasypenner.com/blog/heres-a-look-at-sierra-madres-120-year-old-wisteria-vine/

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Laurence May 6, 2018 - 5:13 pm

Hello Sharon,
I am totally in love with the beautiful romantic wisteria! We have a white one that runs along one of our house walls -It is glorious at the moment and beautifully scented.
We get so much pleasure out of it that I am contemplating planting a pink one!
Yours is an absolute stunner.
LaurenceX

Laurence

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Rebecca May 6, 2018 - 6:01 pm

Love every post! Love wisteria

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Hildred Sullivan May 6, 2018 - 7:26 pm

Here in central New Jersey we planted wisteria on our kids’ old swing set about ten years ago and although it has climbed and covered beautifully with leaves, it has never bloomed! We are so disappointed. Has anyone else had a positive experience growing wisteria in central Jersey near the Delaware?

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stitchinsweetsue May 6, 2018 - 11:49 pm

many a romance novel would swoon for your wisteria facade to appear on their cover! have a great week sharon 🙂 xo

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Debbie Adams May 7, 2018 - 1:35 am

I live in Adelaide Australia and we have very hot summers. I have three wisterias growing. A white one that is espaliered between french doors and it has only flowered once which was the year it was planted.
The other two on show from my kitchen window looked very promising this year and I waited with great excitement. The flowers were just about to pop open when to my horror over night possums had demolished the lot. My beautiful wisteria eaten back to sticks. I could have cried.
Better luck next year.
PS how beautiful does your house look Sharon.

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Jen May 9, 2018 - 7:04 am

Hi Debbie,
I am from Willunga S.A.:) So sorry to hear about those pesky possums ~ they are the bane of my life! Because of possums, I have lost several beautiful climbing roses (including advanced Duchese de Brabant and Crepuscule) … after new growth being constantly eaten! Now I have planted wisteria, thinking that was safer option but oh dear ..
So I have learnt a thing or two, and now use the following which keeps them at bay:
* Neutrog Blood & Bone (best brand) scattered around plant- they hate the smell and the plant thrives
* Dog hair – collected from dog groomers and place in a mesh bag/hosiery and hang near plant for protection. This seems to be working on my now laden, potted citrus, which they also raided last year!
Good luck.
Jen.
Willunga S.A.

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Antonella Pavanello May 7, 2018 - 2:39 pm

Dear Sharon I have been following you for a few years but it’s the first time that I leave a comment.
I have been renting a house in the country for 21 years and I had a beautiful big wisteria covering the facade of my house.
One year, while my husband was cutting the branches I began to weave them together very casually, forming wreaths of different size and shape; mostly round but also oval and heart shaped.
I used them to decorate my house at Christmas but I gave most of them to my friends as a little gift and they all appreciated.
I am sure that with your talent to arrange flowers you will be able to form beautiful wreaths too.
Try and let me know.

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Freddie Ann May 7, 2018 - 3:16 pm

Oh goodness, I absolutely adore my wisteria. I got a start from my parents who got their start from my paternal grandparents. We made a trellis which it soon overtook, but, we have a huge corner stand of bamboo next to it and it wrapped itself around all the bamboo stalks and we left it because we now have these hanging blooms 20 feet in the air and the scent is carried a long way. The bamboo continues to grow which is pretty and green in the summertime – both trying to out do the other. Of course, we have our honeysuckle on the other side. Bees love our lawn.

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sharon santoni May 7, 2018 - 9:19 pm

wow! wisteria on bamboo is taking it to a whole new level!!
thank you Freddie Ann 🙂

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Katie May 7, 2018 - 6:15 pm

I live in Portland, Oregon (US) as well and have had thriving wisteria twice (two different homes). The first didn’t bloom much but grew ferociously. It wasn’t uncommon to wake in the morning with tendrils on my pillow, having found its way in through the window screen. The second bloomed heavily, twice a year and perfumed the whole neighborhood. Sadly it nearly destroyed our large pergola, so it had to be taken out, which was no easy task. It took years to convince it that it didn’t belong in our yard anymore. The clematis plants continue to thrive and climb all over giving our “rainforest” more of a “blooming jungle” look.

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Terri May 9, 2018 - 4:12 pm

The wisteria is just beautiful… makes me think I should be bold and go get one … or two 🙂 …

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Anne May 11, 2018 - 8:50 pm

One of the comments mentioned roots getting into a well.Are they that invasive? Even the roots? I was thinking of putting wisteria on a privacy fence which is near the septic field. Thoughts?

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Nancy Cook Ross May 1, 2021 - 4:19 am

I’ve had 1 wisteria for 6 years and 1 for 4 years. They grow like crazy but neither have ever bloomed. They get sun until about 4 pm. I don’t know why they don’t bloom. Should I just cut them and go back with a climbing rose that gets sun/part shade?

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Lorrie May 2, 2021 - 6:20 pm

Your wisteria blankets your home beautifully. Our neighbours planted one against their back fence, where there is now a tall hedge on our property. A friendly wisteria vine came visiting one summer and we’ve encouraged it to grow on the garden shed in that corner. I see it now, draped over the angled roof with lovely blossoms. We do prune it back severely in the autumn and sometimes once during the summer, too. I’m on Vancouver Island and our garden looks very much at the same stage as yours just now, with the aquilegia just beginning to bloom.

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Marie Peters July 1, 2021 - 11:08 pm

Your description and photos of the luscious wisteria enveloping your house is Devine. I have a French house/blacksmith in Southwest France. The first visit to our tumble down 14C house, bought sight unseen, was in April and wisteria was blooming and climbing across every house, barn, church yard and along fences. I was determined to plant wisteria in our courtyard in France. There was an old rock drinking hole originally designed as a drinking place for the horses as they waited to be shod. It became the perfect home for the little flimsy plant to grow. Did it grow?

We lived in Hong Kong and our visits were limited. The next Easter holidays we returned to La Forge and the wisteria was up the wall, onto the roof tiles, creeping under the old wooden beams and resting in the gutters. I was thrilled and love her ambitious life. She has shaded me when I read, inspired me to paint, gave me comfort during a very sad divorce and is home to many birds and tiny creatures. She is the first plant I greet as I fumble with old big keys and open the gate to the courtyard.

My mother was a great gardener and dreamed of a wisteria twisting around the house, but our house was surrounded by big Douglas fir trees and very limited sun. Each year Mom would faithfully water it, fertilize it and prune it, but she never saw a blossom. That is why I named my wisteria GRACE, after my mother.

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Nick October 18, 2022 - 3:40 pm

Hi there,
Love your site
I have just bought a house in the south of France with a lovely wisteria. It’s a second home and I’m just wondering when I should expect the downfall of leaves?
Thanks,

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