It’s Wisteria Time

I previously shared a photo of our wisteria at the end of last month, festooned with buds.  Our fingers and toes were crossed that there would be no late frost that would kill off the blooms, as happened last year.

To our delight, all went well and we have our best ever showing from this plant.  It is now six years old and is really coming into its own.  Some of those racemes are three foot long.  I find it rather mesmerising to sit at the outdoor table and watch them sway in a breeze. I don’t know what the variety is (I’d have to hunt for the tag), but I haven’t really seen any others liked this.  They are normally darker, with shorter racemes.

When we bought this house there were three wattle trees planted here, at the end of our back verandah.  They were messy and cut so much light.  Mick built this framework and the wisteria lets the sun in during winter, provides gorgeous flowers in spring and summer shade.  You can’t get better than that.

It is such a pity that they will be finished in the next week or so.

Remember the crocheted rug I recently completed for Wrap With Love?  

Well, the yarn I used was called “Wisteria”.  I popped up the road to my neighbour, who is the coordinator, and asked if I could borrow it back.  I wanted to take a photo of it in front of our wisteria.  Silly, I know, but then, that’s how I am.

We planted a wisteria at our first little house and it grew over our pergola.  We loved it.

When we moved out of town and planted a large garden, a feature was a wisteria walk.  Mick and a mate built it using old telegraph poles, so it was really sturdy.  We bought some wisteria plants from a local nursery and they grew well………they just never flowered.  We were really disappointed.  We had been told they often take several years to flower, particularly if propagated from seed, but these were there for over 15 years with no flowers.

Last weekend we had to visit our old home, as some of our mail had been sent there - only 10 years after we moved…..

Well, blow me down, look at that wisteria.  It is now flowering profusely.  Not only that, it is the same as the one we have here with the pale flowers on very long racemes.

We were delighted to see it.