I have achieved wisteria
May. 29th, 2009 08:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lblanchardPardon me while I pat myself on the back. I collected a seedpod of our native Wisteria frutescens at Bartrams Garden the winter of 1995-96 and scarified a seed the day we made a deposit on this house. Finally, after thirteen years, it has bloomed in a serious way.
It might have done so years earlier if it hadn't spent its first six years in a pot. Or it might not have. The horticulturist at Bartrams Garden told me it takes anywhere from 6-12 years for them to bloom from seed. It bloomed lightly in fall of 2007 and again last spring. In the scheme of things, it's not a big deal to have grown a plant that self-sows all over the south and is an invasive thug there, but I'm still pretty happy about it. If we ever move, I will take some seedpods and start over, although there's no guarantee I'll live to see a second vine bloom.
This is an imperfect photomerge.
And a note to myself: I put Miracle Gro on all the plants in the third floor rear, especially the basil seedlings. (Does not include the hippeastrum seeds, which aren't ready.)
It might have done so years earlier if it hadn't spent its first six years in a pot. Or it might not have. The horticulturist at Bartrams Garden told me it takes anywhere from 6-12 years for them to bloom from seed. It bloomed lightly in fall of 2007 and again last spring. In the scheme of things, it's not a big deal to have grown a plant that self-sows all over the south and is an invasive thug there, but I'm still pretty happy about it. If we ever move, I will take some seedpods and start over, although there's no guarantee I'll live to see a second vine bloom.
This is an imperfect photomerge.
And a note to myself: I put Miracle Gro on all the plants in the third floor rear, especially the basil seedlings. (Does not include the hippeastrum seeds, which aren't ready.)
