How's your wisteria doing? Or what are you proud of in the garden today?

[Gardenquestion22]

My 4 year old wisteria (I think it's 4) has about 20 flower buds on it - there was one last year. I'm so proud!

Mine seems to be struggling this year. I only planted it 2 years ago when it was little (and still is). Still holding out that it'll still grow but just take a while. It does seem to have little shoots on... I think they are alive.

Congrats @Gardenquestion22
Sadly not mine but several neighbours have absolutely glorious wisteria this year-I love it!!!

My tulips have been fantastic. The perennials are leaping upwards. And my seedlings are doing pretty well. Very satisfactory.

Mine is old and looks like that. Still way fewer flowers than when it was overgrown and neglected when we bought the house, hmmm. It had a bit of a shock the previous winter when its support fell and it had to be hoisted onto new one, so maybe that’s the reason. Last year it only had two flowers!

My yellow, scented rhododendron is about to burst its buds.

We bought out wisteria in the winter and then thought we had killed it but it has quite a few leaves on it now. Its only little but at least it's alive.

I've got 8 pumpkin seedlings making an appearance. I planted 8 because I really struggled to get any to grow last year. This year they are all coming through quickly and I don't actually need 8 pumpkin plants as they get huge!

Just starting to get its leaves as it’s a late flowering variety. It’s also only a baby. It was planted two years ago :)

My wisteria planted last year is getting its leaves and has put on growth - I hope to see some flowers before we sell this house when boy turns 18! Got twelve years so here’s hoping

It's looking fabulous! (at least 10 years old, strict pruning regime)

Shame about the hose on the left, haha

We planted our new wisteria in a huge pot eighteen months ago when we bought this cottage, intending to remove some of the paving and get it into the ground. Unfortunately the (1960s) paving is cemented down and we haven't yet had the time to kango it up as the rest of the property is such a big project.

Therefore, I was convinced it wouldn't thrive - or flower this year, not being in the ground - but it's surpassed my expectations and is a mass of at least 50 huge flowers/buds!

At a previous house we had a fabulous 70'+ wisteria that was over a hundred years old when we sold up in 2018. I'm hoping the current owners kept it!

I wonder why the photos of my wisteria are sensitive :)
Yours is beautiful @Agapornis !
@LibertyLily do you have any photos of your old wisteria? It sounds wonderful. I also hope the new owners kept it.

I need to put one of those in!

Not wisteria I'm afraid, but our 2 year old apple which I thought was struggling due to a large birch tree seems to now be thriving after a good mulch and feed, bluebells were a bonus!

I’m very pleased about my wisteria, it was new, planted over winter and has flowered! I was expecting to have a few years to wait.

It is on a lovely south facing brick wall and it doesn’t seem to mind the clay soil so far. Just need to remember to keep feeding it for the first few years.

Ours is looking lovely although a howling gale is doing its best to dislodge all the lovely blossom. Goodness knows how old it is, we've been here 30 years, and it was well established when we arrived.

I can see one flower bud on my Wisteria so I’m hopeful to see my first flower!

Im not a very good gardener! last few years have been spent doing up a house and young kids this is the first year I feel like I can start getting my head round the garden so I’m starting to buy plants and weed and plant it up!

Yours is gorgeous @TonTonMacoute!

I've had to go back onto our old computer for pics @PinkCamelias as they predate my phone. The yellow window ones were from 2015 (we bought the house in Dec 2014), I painted the windows green smoke in 2016. The house was built in 1854 and extended (the bay elevation) in 1924, which as far as I know was when the wisteria was planted.
Here you go....

And a few more....
The last two are our wisteria here and my iris which opened today 🩷

our wisteria was doing so well - loads and loads of buds after 10 years of maybe .... four .... across the whole period. In the last week, though, the leaves have come out and completely taken over, so I don't know that we'll get flowers now. Would cut the leaves back this weekend, but we're away.

Gorgeous!

Ours is looking lovely but not this level. It’s only 5 years old but vigorous. We have it wrapped around the front and side of the house and it’s filling the first floor with its lovely scent.

I saw someone had set up an easel and was painting it the other day.

Not flowering in my garden, but I've managed to grow enough cucumber, courgette, tomato and chilli plants from last year's seed or older, that I haven't needed to buy any new.

I'm watching the veggie bed for lettuce, spring onions, radish, and leek seedings. They are all planted under chicken wire and clear plastic to keep the pigeons and deer off.

The seed cupboard needed clearing out 😊