I am absurdly happy that my wisteria looks like it will actually FLOWER this year!

[PacificDogwood]

Just needed to share - not a regular here .

I have had it for more than 10 years, in this time it had been planted in garden of previous house, was taken back out and put into pot to allow for house alteration, then moved with us to new house, still in pot for further 2 year to allow further major building work - was planted into lovely lush soil 1 year ago at southwesterly aspect and it now has dozens of lovely racemens (sp?) and today I could see the first obvious lilac!!
I am so very very excited - can you tell ?

Anbody here have any experience on how well I can expect this poor plant to do in the central belt of Scotland?
My parents in southern Germany have just informed me that most of the wisteria has already finished flowering, so obviously we are as expected much behind.

i think wisteria flowers in july in scotland.

welcome to mumsnet.

i like wisteria too, reminds me of my wedding day.

I have a wisteria too that looks like its dead for 8 months of the year. Its finally growing some nice healthy green leaves. I can't see it actually flowering anytime soon.

Come to think of it, I'm not even sure what it will look like, or what colour it will be....

No, no, dragonbutter (and I DID google your name a while back, grrrrr!), I am not new to MN, only new to gardening thread.
As I have now stopped BF DS3 I only appear on BF thread for patronising drivvel invaluable advice rather than in desperate and needy state begging for support, so have time to take an interest in my garden, which was sadly neglected last year due to DS3's arrival. What is it about newborns than makes them so distracting?

Anyway, July you reckon, that's lovely. Thanks .

Ours is lovely, as a suggestion prune after it flowers and you should get a second flowering (well we do down here) also prune vigorously in the winter.

sorry

i really don't know anything about gardening. but we had wisteria from the garden in scotland on our wedding cake. that was end of july.

i do recognise your name though. really i do.

congratulations op!

Oddly i have nothing but luck with wysteria wherever i put them

I currently have 5 and all but one are flowering

next door has a profuse one which also adorns my house!

I dont know why some people say they take years to flower - ime they ALWAYS do

Oddly i think i prefer the leaves anyway - so wispy and feathery - blowing i n the wind

epitomises summer imo

How lovely!
I think they are beautiful.
Paulayates where do you have your 5 Wisteria? I
always thought they were just for house walls really, are they ok on fences?

My gran (in Germany) had a very old wisteria climbing up 3 stories of turn of the (previous) century villa. A very heavy frost killed it about 2 or 3 years ago. I was upset because apart form being v pretty it also epitomised my childhood and summer for me.
And this year it is alive again, yeah, so maybe it is just a good year for wisteria.

Paula, I am filled with that yours are doing so well, and yes leaves are nice too, but not really the point of having one IMO .

Yes, pruning, must remember pruning... how about feeding it? Or is several wheelbarrow loads of well-rotted manure it got last year enough for now?

pannacotta

Two of them i brought with me from my last house still attached to a bit of trellis that went over the top of a gate ( long story why i moved them but i thought the gate was being knocked down so moved them)

They are now against a wall

One is against a porch in a dark and dingy stairwell that leads to our cellar door

One is over the sort of pretty porch (open porch dont know proper name) at the front ( again in a dark recess but they grow)

and the last one is under a vast scotts pine

Wow, and do they all flower even in the shade?
Thought they needed about 6 hours of sun a day if they are to flower well...

In my parents old house ( my brother lives there now) they had the most magnificent wisteria along the kitchen garden wall which must have been 75ft long.

both bleak ones!!! are in full bud despite cold northern may infact the sunny ones less flowery....

That is quite surprising, you must have green fingers and good soil...

no green fingers

a strong will that they will grow

Ah, well then your thought processes and willpower are pretty tuned in!

Am planning on planting a Wisteria so nice to hear some success stories...

Any advice on feeding?

Ooh I love wisteria too but don't actually have one.

I am also v pleased today after finding some buds on a previously non-flowering but v healthy looking honeysuckle growing up the back wall of the house. I gave it a very extreme pruning (together with pep talk) in the early spring and it clearly did the trick.

i never fee dthem dog

i neglect them and they thrive ( wonders about hugley successful dcs!!!)

Honeysuckle however - disease and wither under my gaze......

Ha! I am VERY successful with honeysuckle, put that in your pipe and smoke it, Paula!

And DSs, well, survival of the fittest and all that...

haha, PacificDogwood, i'm not sure that's the attitude to take on the gardening threads!

Pacific i like your profile

i am absolutely wasted but never give up considering ttc!