Re: Wisteria festival

Great pics, Cyndi.  I love wisteria wood, how it gets so  twisted.  I've 
tried to keep some of mine, but it gets quite brittle with  time.  When I cut the 
straggly vines back though, I've used those to make  baskets, they seem to 
hold up much better....although not as decorative.
 
I've had this wisteria since 1990, it has never bloomed.  We have  gotten all 
sorts of advice in the past and tried it, even from this group when  it was 
AHS.   No nitrogen fertilizer, pruning roots, not cutting  it back at all, you 
name it.   Nothing.  It was not blooming  when we purchased it, some say it's 
just a dud (?).  We keep saying we are  going to yank it out and try something 
else, but it has been there so long, and  it is located right on a cedar 
fence, that digging it would cause problems, I  think.  It really is annoying how 
it climbs into every tree, and then every  year I have to cut out the vines.  
Haven't gotten to cutting it yet, and  was hoping it would bloom this year but 
it already has put out  foliage.  This might definitely be the year it 
goes.....but then we say  that every year.  And it is not like this type doesn't do 
well here, since  they are growing wild all through the Texas Piney woods and 
bloom  religiously.  
Anyone have any clues, or had experience with non-blooming wisteria?   Or 
perhaps encouragement to finally take the step to get rid of it.  Just  kills me 
to get rid of a perfectly good plant........... just because  it doesn't 
bloom.  Tired of giving it another chance though.
 
We have an evergreen wisteria, _Milletia reticulata _ 
(http://aolsearch.aol.com/aol/redir?src=websearch&requestId=2cc636627b6a86a6&clickedItemRank=2&userQue
ry=Evergreen+wisteria&clickedItemURN=http://www.magnoliagardensnursery.com/pro
ductdescrip/Milletia_Ever.html&title=Milletia+reticulata+-+Evergreen+Wisteria)
 , that  we've only had a few years, it has bloomed consistently.  Another 
thing I  like about this one vs. the other type, besides being evergreen, is 
that it  blooms all summer and fall, and sometimes winter till first freeze.  It  
seems to be very hardy, has never frozen back or had any freeze damage to the 
 vine even. 
 
Noreen
zone 9
Texas Gulf Coast

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