I've noticed the lilac bushes around here are looking quite flowerful this year. Wish I had wisteria, though.

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I guess the next thing you will tell me is that you have Magnolias, Honeysuckle and Confederate Jasmine! Y'all just took everything when you left.

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The Confederate jasmine grows wild here. It has beautiful yellow flowers and the smell is intoxicating. I have been trying to get it to grow on my back yard fence. I don't know why it is Confederate Jasmine, but it fits in well with all the right-wingers around me.

Northern California, too.

in 1957, I saw wisteria for the first time. The many trunks were supported by a wooden pergola which covered a large church courtyard; it was filled with so many gorgeous purple blooms that it shaded the entire courtyard. I was awed with its beauty!

beautiful in the spring but man, is it a messy thing, constantly dropping it leaves all over the patio mnost of the year compunded by the dead flowers after the heavy spring bloom. I love it though. I'm just north of the capital near the edge of Sacramento & Sutter counties.

a house that had it growing all over a pergola over our deck and front door. The shade was nice and it looked beautiful, but it was a lot of work. At least once a year I had to trim it way back or we would not have been able to get to our front door. The trimmings filled a pickup truck bed. If I wasn't renting and I owned the place I would have cut it back a lot more but the landlord didn't want me to do that.

cancer about 5 months later. The idiots who "landscaped" the yard thought it made sense to it on one of the patios to let it grow over the pergola but, honey! This thing is a monster from outer space and fighting cancer added with Bae working all the overtime he could equalled having the yard look like hell. Won the war but now trimming Norcal's version of the Ho Chi Minh trail begins.

BTW, I'll soon be your neighbor from the northwest. Looking for large acreage to your northwest. Humboldt county. Already have anout 25 acres in the paskenta area west of Corning.

The most invasive plant I ever had. Roots like I have ever seen, but it is beautiful.

That thanks due to people working to develop magnolia that will grow in Zones 4 and 5.

Y'all may get the plants, but you will never get the drawl!

Call mine a mid-western twang.

My strong Southern accent was an albatross that followed me everywhere I went. People who talked like I did were assumed to be idiots.....After I figured that out, I used it to my advantage and played it to the hilt. There is no advantage like having your enemies underestimate your abilities!

folks believe you're stupid because they'll NEVER expect you to be strategic or outflank them. It's doubly in your favor is they're stupid AF, (you know, kind of like the latest iterration of the GQP). IDIOTS! They're EASILY defeated with a conspiracy theory spread with a poison pill in it for their own party. Only need to make sure that it seemingly comes from someone who appears to one of their own and sounds b@t$h!t crazily in line with the lastest qanon insanity.

You, my friend, are MY kind of people!

Too tough sometimes. It can become invasive if not kept in check.

I was going to ask where it was too. Ours bloomed a few weeks ago. Maybe a month ago. In SC.

Beautiful plant. I love the smell of the blossoms too.

It'll be a few weeks before our flowers look like yours (not quite as bountiful, though!).

A few years ago, an old house changed hands in the small town near me. In the front yard was Wisteria that was so old that its main stem was nearly 30" in diameter. It was a Wisteria "tree." Not long after the new owners moved in, they cut it down and removed the stump. To me, it felt like a crime.

sent them an anonymous letter about the curse of the wisteria tree.

I think related to uprooting sidewalks and foundations or crawling all over a house.

I've never seen one before. Beautiful!

I've had to remove tons of it from my yard, because if allowed to run amok it will choke just about everything else out, although the aroma is lovely in early spring.

For people with the time, patience, and discipline to train it and keep it pruned, wisteria can be a beautiful plant, as Croney's OP illustrates. Of course, that's in Massachusetts, where winter temps probably keep it line better than here in Georgia.

I be jealous.

It ever blossomed before? I posted a while back that we had had ours for 19 yrs and all of sudden it bloomed. Just green leaves before then.

It was only last year that it decided to take the year off to hibernate and play dead. Toward late summer it did show green but there wasn't time to blossom before winter.

zero green in that pic. Blooms amazing.

It didn't grow either. Sorry you got a bum wisteria.

It's happening all over the world. Growth seldom seen before and low pollution is the reason. The pollution is picking up once again so enjoy the growth while it lasts.

Lucky you!

Beautiful flowers in spring like yours. Years ago when we lived in NC, wisteria had naturalized on our back property over who knows how many decades into a tangled mess. Over the first 5 or so years we owned the place the best we could do was fight it to an uneasy truce. Wisteria is beautiful, but also a tough bugger down south. Not as oppressive as kudzu, but close.

I live in NC and make my income through my targeted grazing business (goats eating unwanted vegetation). We can eliminate kudzu in one season through repeat grazing. Kudzu is a tuber. By regrazing each time the plant's leaves grow to 75% of their full size we can exhaust the tuber/deplete its reserves. Wisteria on the other hand....there is one patch that is just now dying after 4 years of grazing.

I do consultations for people prior to contracting with them for our services and I cannot tell you the number of beautiful forest areas and hardwood trees that I have seen destroyed by wisteria. Literally hundreds. I also cannot tell you the number of residential yards we see that are carpeted by wisteria. We can often trace the growth back to the first ornamental planting installed years ago. Often the first plant was installed in a "perfect" spot. Perhaps beside a pergola or garden feature. Through the passage of time, the garden was neglected, the house was sold or left vacant or the property was simply sold to people who did not know that wisteria must be carefully controlled.

Maybe the risk is not as bad in more northern areas, but given the damage to native forests that I see on a daily basis, I would outlaw the sale of wisteria in any location where it grows easily and abundantly. I often describe it to my customers as the epitome of dangerous beauty.

...in Santa Barbara, hanging directly over the 101 freeway. I used to look for it every spring while I was in SB. Beats me how it got there or how it survived, but it was a treat. Enjoy!

...called Cluff Park, which has a long arbor over a walkway, covered in Wisteria.

Lovely picture!

With that gem of a wisteria in the center. Beautiful, thanks for sharing it.

I get confused how to prune it. I pruned mine hard a couple years ago and it barely bloomed the next year.

..then the vines grew through my cedar siding and we tried to kill it as it can really cause damage when next to a house. Chopped it up chopped it down..now its trying to come back to life. IF i resurrect it.. should I try transplanting it in another area?

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Are wisteria and lilacs related? Here's what we wake up to in the morning, but they're almost gone (they only last about 3-4 weeks):

that only comes with age!

Grows well here in Adelaide, South Australia too.

I planted one, trained it on a trellis - then moved home. 8-(

Hope the new owners kept it, should be 30 years old by now.



Wisteria arch at the local botanic gardens.

while there are gorgeous pergola wisterias, blooming in NYC's Brooklyn Botanical Garden, on a building in Wave Hill's Garden Park, and along the western fence of the NY (Bronx) Botanical Garden - you might be surprised to find at times...

beautiful wisteria growing up 4, 5 stories high on some of our older apartment buildings - at least in The West Village in the past (not been on those particular streets in several years). I was visiting that area frequently for decades, and pass it at that time of year! 💖

Glad yours didn't get cut. Enjoy!

My husband built all structures and paths and he is in charge of weeding and planting. Garden going in now. It's been great during Covid that he can work in the yard.

And I'll bet the fragrance is above heavenly.

Thank you for sharing ❤️

in your yard.

I was in France in April several years ago and the wisteria was just knockout gorgeous everywhere. Here in the south it grows wild, but it wasn't terribly pretty this year.

That’s gorgeous

There is one in Sierra Madre Ca. that is considered one of the 7 horticultural wonders of the world, it weighs 250 tons and spreads across an acre between 2 houses

I just love wisteria, but I don't really have anywhere for it to climb. I had the opp. to get a ton of lumber for a ridiculous price and wanted to make a pergola, but my wife was having none of that.

You have a very peaceful-looking yard!