Wisteria bonsai

[shipsquartersfarm]

Thanks, Randy.

How old do you think your large pictured wisteria is?

[plantmanky]

Thanks, Randy.

How old do you think your large pictured wisteria is?

John
Well, the Kentucky story is (and you can take that with a grain of salt with the way Kentuckians tell stories) that It was planted on the pig pen fence in the early 1960's which makes it late fourtyish or mid-fiftyish. They grow like weeds here and when I collected it, it had sprawled into the trees and covered about a 2 acre area. It was a sight to see when it flowered in the spring. The trunk at the base is 12" and the trunk has a large scar the full lenght from a lightning strike, quite a natural shari.

[centaura]

it had sprawled into the trees and covered about a 2 acre area. It was a sight to see when it flowered in the spring.

Yeah, they do spread a bit down there. I was once traveling with some plant-ignorant folks, and we where through the southeast when the wisteria was blooming. When we got to the hotel that night, they asked me about what kind of pine tree grew purple flowers (that they had seen that day). I had to explain to them that those were wisteria vines that were growing up the pine trees and blooming.

-Cat