Wisterian Adventures

In my previous entry, I made the claim that Wisteria steals the show around here. I found some pictures of when it was at its biggest and that was in 2005 before the vines were trimmed back when the lattice was starting to fall.


April 12, 2005


April 18, 2005

Wisteria isn't all that pretty. The only reason the wisteria is established on a lattice board is because there used to be this giant pine tree in that spot. The wisteria climbed all the way to the top and you couldn't even see the base of the tree because the vines were as thick as my arm (I still find it annoying that I can't find any pictures back in 1995 when we first moved in and took pictures of the tree). After the tree was cut down, the wisteria was still coming up in that spot with so much growth that it was impossible to keep it mowed down. A lattice was put up so that it could grow up. It was pretty neat to see it bloom one year and every year since, it's grown bigger. In 2005, it was trimmed back so it's not as big and showy as it was last year.



Another thing is that the wisteria is very invasive. All of the wisteria has been here since before we moved in. We have no idea how it started. The neighbor across the street has a big tree with all that wisteria growing up it, similar to the one we had. We don't know if someone thought it was neat and didn't expect it to have such a tremendous underground root system to reach the woods. It may have grown under the street and perked up at the neighbor's tree and they just let it grow.

There's tons of seeds that fall. More and more fall every year. In fact, there were so many that I set up a trade with many people but I was overwhelmed and never traded again with the seeds.