Vines and Climbers: Get Your Wisteria "Fix", 1 by HollyAnnS

HollyAnnS wrote:
Wisteria isn't a long bloomer, It blooms in the spring for a couple of weeks and then is gone. Puts on a beautiful show when it does. One year we went on vacation for 2 weeks in the spring and missed the entire bloom cycle. I like the looks of the leaves, Nice green kind of sprays out, very pretty. I haven't really looked at the different types or newer cultivators so I couldn't give advice on that. One of the things you can do is train your wisteria up and keep all the leaves and blooms on the top of the pergola leaving the supports free for other viners maybe annuals that you could change from year to year. That would give you the best of both. My Wisteria does very well in my Zone 6.
I have my Trumpet Vine trained up in this pic you can see the bare branches growing up the sides of my Arbor with only the greenery on top. I like this look and have seen it done with a lot of Wisteria.