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Wisteria is Blooming

Posted By Ashleigh Bethea on Apr 15, 2008 | 2 comments


Chinese Wisteria
This is one of my very favorite times of the year.  Everything is really starting to come out here in South Carolina.  We've got White Dogwoods blooming strongly right now, and, of course, one of my favorite blooms of the year is out in force right now: Wisteria.  Around here we have Wisteria growing everywhere.  It peeks out from somewhere in almost every yard, it seems, and many of the pine groves around town have at least some of the amethyst or lilac-blue blooms on almost every tree.  Wisteria hangs off of trees all up and down the streets in the older parts of town, and sometimes a strong wind will dislodge small showers of the small purple petals.  The Wisteria bloom gets started across town, usually over the course of just a couple of weeks, just when the weather really starts to turn for the better.  The first few picnics and hikes of the spring are usually accompanied by Wisteria in Greenwood.  Growing Wisteria is probably a tradition around here because in large part because it's so easy, but it certainly doesn't hurt that it means amazing purple against the bright green of new tree growth just when we're most ready for lots of flowers,  after the Daffodils have stopped blooming.  Either way, I'm glad for it.

2 Comments

  1. I too see Wisteria blooming all over town- all but MINE! The trunk is abt. 3″-4″ around now.We bought another and planted it next to it so we could remove the flower- less vine we grow. Both grow massive and are healthy and neither have ever bloomed.It is growing on the front porch facing kind of West. It gets sun most of the day. We have tried many things to get it to bloom- and nothing.We are ready to dig it out even though it has become like a small tree. Help! Anyone!

  2. Large plants that don’t flower is a symptom of excess nitrogen fertilization – If you get regular rain or have highly organic, nitrogen-rich soils and then you still supplement with an all-purpose fertilizer, you will get a huge plant, but the nitrogen inhibits flowering. Try root-pruning and possibly super-phosphate next season, then you may start to see a few blooms.

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