more wisteria tales
- To: Medit-L
- Subject: more wisteria tales
- From: C* S*
- Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 10:47:29 -0700
I planted a 'garden variety' wisteria (purchased in bloom - 5 gal size) in
the front of my first house, which it covered immediately, sold that house 4
years later without seeing it bloom. Second house - I built a 40 foot
trellis and another wisteria covered it and went 30 feet up the adjacent
Italian cypress. Moved 4 years later - never saw a flower. I never
fertilized either plant and they were in "unimproved" soil.
At my current house we have 3 different wisteria. Texas Pink
flowered the third Spring, it grows though a hole in my deck and only gets
the water that drips out of the pots on the deck. This is really a blue
pink, but it is magnificent. Black dragon - planted the same year - has not
grown as quickly , nor has it flowered in this it's 4th year. Another
'garden variety' planted nearby, flowered this year sparingly for the first
time. It has not been very vigorous - I think it got root pruned by gopher's
the first year.
I am sure we will move the year before Black Dragon looks
magnificent. My only consolation is that the Heronswood catalog alludes to
it's difficulty as well.
Chad Schroter in Los Gatos California somewhere for now....
