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Flower arches, Garden, Ivy, Landscape design, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Tree arch, Vine, Virginia, Virginia creeper, White wisteria, Wisteria, Wood Thrush
Having a stone house, Virginia creeper love throwing their tendrils up the side of my house. My mother said it’s not good for the house and will weaken the mortar and thus the stonework, but the mourning doves love nesting on the window sills with the leaves as cover, so I let the vines run up to a certain point. Plus, they turn a spectacular red in the fall.
The only thing that is lacking is flowers, so I decided a few years ago to plant wisteria in the back of of house to crawl up our balcony.
My youngest is the bane of my green thumb as she likes to pluck the blooms, although I can see why; they are gorgeous!
They are very fast growing and prolific bloomers if you are good about pruning.
Here are wisteria trees and no structure is needed to support them.
The colors can vary from pink,
purple and white.
Just a magical tunnel!
Other homes have used wisteria…
A gardener’s cottage
I would love to have a my yard looking like this!!
And a secret garden hidden by waves of wisteria, although I’d prefer the color to be more intense as this seems a little washed out.
These are so plump that they look like bunches of grapes! I’ve seen pictures of forests in England where bluebells (similar in color) carpet the forest’s floor, which also make me swoon, and I think it happens naturally!!
I hope everyone enjoyed the lavender eye candy 🙂
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What a fabulous post!! I love wisteria, but haven’t been able to get it started in my garden. You’ve inspired me to try again!! 🙂
I’m CRAZY about wisteria!! If you have a dead tree, you can plant one there and it will grow up it, you can plant it as a bush or get a tree wisteria. I hope you don’t have a “plucker” on your hands like I do 😉 although maybe she helped because she was doing some pruning – haha!!
WOW! They are just stunning.
AMAZING!!!
Absolutely stunning.
I too am wild about Wisteria and have been since I lived in a home in Seattle that had it pruned to hang over a hard line on the patio. Your images sent me into a dream-like trance. I particularly liked the image of the Wisteria Forest, so magical.
Thank you so much for sharing.
I bet you had amazing plants there – camellias, azaleas, rhododendrons – just great weather for everything!
Stunning!
Wisteria is a beautiful plant, but it can choke out it’s host, so I think I would listen to dear old Mom and keep it off of my house, and/or any trees that you think it might be pretty against. The Wisteria will take over and suffocate those trees. I do like the Wisteria on the arbor to create a tunnel … that is very beautiful and not likely to harm the trellis work that supports its. Your photos are almost as lovely as the plant itself.
She was talking about the Virginia creeper – she was the one that bought the wisteria for the balcony, which is comprised of steel beams, stone and iron. No landscaping to invade there.
I also want to figure out how to make large metal tunnels – our property was old farmland, thus acres of it is denuded and stripped of any trees… too bare..
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How beautiful, my own wisteria isn’t doing so well this year, maybe next year it will put on a better showing.
Maybe try pruning a bit next year? That helps it bloom…
Thank you, I’ll try that! 🙂
One of the things I truly miss about living in England, the beautiful wisteria up the back of our house! Loved this. Love your site.
I bet that was so beautiful!! Thank you!
Wow! That is totally stunning! I’m going to have to try wisteria again up a mountain in North Wales. Gorgeous photos!
I think I have to get one now. I’m forwarding this post to my husband. He’ll groan because I’m already going crazy with the fruit trees I’m making him plant for me, but he loves me and will give in. 😉
What’s a couple more trees 😉 I keep saying I need to get more trees – I’m dying to plant some apple trees!
i am in the UK and I have to say the extra rain we have had this spring has resulted in an abundance of blue bells I have some photos to go on my blog soon of the woods near me will post you the link when I do
I’d love to see it! The first picture I saw of it, I thought it was photo shopped! I couldn’t believe that happened naturally!
http://paulaacton.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/bluebell-woods/ a few of the bluebell pics as promised
Gorgeous, although also a bit sad for me as my wisteria died this year!
Beautiful and I would love to visit this place. I”m not a purple fan, but really love these flowers now.
What a great post, I adore the wisteria arbor.
It reminds me of Italy! We spent Easter in Florence/Tuscany visiting my daughter who was spending a semester there and wisteria grew everwhere. It adds a quaintness to everything it touches. Love the photos here — beautiful!
just gorgeous photos. That tunnel is truly fab. i’d love to be there right now.
it’s funny – in the past month i have been toying with the wisteria idea as well…i think maybe i’ve been inspired to plant some!!
I love wisteria and these photos are just gorgeous.
amazing
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I do not have a green thumb, but this would be beautiful! Wow.
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Beautiful Wisteria by blogger, A Detailed House. Too beautiful not to share! http://adetailedhouse.com/2012/05/24/wild-for-wisteria/
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this is beautiful! I won’t be able to do this where I live, but I like your house really! and the wisteria tunnel is awesome!
Wisteria is such an amazing plant, both the colour and form are so beautiful. I especially like when it is used over walkways like in some of the images, it looks like purple rain. Stunning! And the first image of the house OMG, when can I move in?
I almost can’t handle how incredible your house is! Breathtaking!!
The images are stunning and simply breathtaking. Thanks for sharing these examples of beauty, colour and design.
we had some beautiful orange wisteria in our garden, but had to take it down as it was intermingled with some very overgrown ivy. Was very, very sad to see it go, but lo and behold it started sprouting again and I can’t wait for it to drape our walls again. Stunning images 🙂
I think wisteria can add just a magical feel to a house or yard. Those wisteria tunnels and vast expanses of wisteria are amazing. I would love to sit under those or photograph by daughter playing under them.
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Wow, what a treat. These are so beautiful. Almost fairy tale looking beautiful.
Gorgeous
It is beautiful, but like you said… best if well pruned.
Here in the northeast, it’s invasive and will kill trees and anything else it’s allowed to grow freely on. Our neighbors have a gorgeous old vine of it that grows along an old ornate iron fence. It’s really lovely in bloom, but they don’t prune and it’s taken over all their mature, deciduous trees. And is working its way through their evergreens.
So far I’ve resisted the temptation to go over while they’re at work and “save” the trees.
Smothering out live trees is unbearable – it’s like watching something being slowly choked to death. Just go make a few snips a day!! I have some great pruners you can borrow 😉
Absolutely beautiful & inspiring. I’m going to have to check to see if they grow well in my area. I think I’ve seen some although they’re not very prevalent around here. I really love the tunnels & I’m right now formulating some ideas with that in mind leading up to this large field I have.
Ooh! Let me know if you come up with anything for the tunnel! I have open fields too that I would love to do something with, I just haven’t figured out what as the deer tend to rub their little horns on everything I plant, at least tree-wise!
I am in awe. Really.
wow – all of this wisteria is so beautiful! Gorgeous, gorgeous post!
I love Wisteria and it’s every where here in the south of France this time of year. I don’t have any in my garden but my neighbor does and I get a great view of it through my kitchen window! Since purple is my most favorite color, it helps me enjoy washing dishes 🙂
Ashley
Drop dead gorgeous.
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I too love the creeper vines. We had a trumpet vine with a beautiful orange flower growing next to/on he stonework of the house. But when we found out how much it is to repict the brick/stone/mortar we promptly pulled it off. :-(. So sad, I really liked it. I also love wisteria. Beautiful shots. Where were they taken?
Wisteria has to be the most beautiful vine ever. Ok well other than Morning Glories. I would love to have it on my ugly old fence. Just the thought makes me swoon. It is magical.
hmmmmm I have a completely dead tree in my front yard. I never even thought about planting some Wisteria to grow up the tree. that would be interesting. Thanks for the beautiful photos. Very inspiring
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Thanks for the gorgeous photos, Kearney! Wisteria is beautiful and fragrant, but down here in Texas the Asian variety is considered really invasive. I have seen huge oak trees totally smothered and eventually killed by a vine that probably started out very small and pretty. Make sure you are planting American Wisteria (wisteria frutescens). Here is a great link to learn more about them. http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=wifr
Just beware of the fact that wisteria vines can be very heavy and cause significant damage to your home. Best to grow them on a trellis rather than on the house.
I can just imagine the beautiful smells while walking through the Wisteria… I’m glad I read this post; very nice.
Lon
Thank you so much!
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Lovely home. I’ve always loved stone homes. Though a bit off topic, the wisteria blossoms (flowers only) can be frittered and are actually quite tasty. 😉
Huh!! That’s interesting! Are they better with a sweet or savory batter?
Well that would depend on one’s personal taste. 🙂 If you have a bunch of blossoms, ye could try a batch of both. Maybe mix up a small batch of batter in a mixing bowl and try it with both concepts. Fry in oil, and tada.
Please note that it is just the flowers that are edible the seed pods later on are quite toxic and even 2 seeds are enough to harm a small child. So don’t let your kids play with or try to eat the seed pods thinking they are OK because the flowers are OK. Plants in nature tend to have very specific times and parts that are and are not edible. We’re all just used to going to the grocery store and having everything sanitized for us.
I also noticed you said you had Virginia Creeper. (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) This has berries that are quiet toxic. Deadly even, in small quantities.
Just something to be aware of. Enjoy your fritters! 🙂
Thanks for the info!! I love growing our own food – or should I say, what the animals leave for us 😉 Our wildlife leave our pumpkin patch alone and the seeds make a yummy a nutritious treat for the little ones!
Sounds delightful. I’ve had problems with the local wildlife, mostly deer, eating the blossoms off of the pumpkin and squash. I planted several rows of each two years ago and didn’t get a single squash. ONE was growing and made it from flower-hood, but apparently some critter thought the little squash looked tasty as well, and that was that. FYI, blooms of most squash (and therefore pumpkin) are edible and quite tasty.
WOW! Your photos are amazing…now I think I’ll have to get into gardening! Love the colors, the textures and the beauty!
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