Blue Chinese Wisteria

Chinese Wisterias are deciduous. The vine often climbs trees, and is most striking when seen in full bloom draped from the limbs of a high pine. It is perfect for covering patios, arbors or fences. It is probably best used for training to grow onto an arbor where flowers can droop and form a fragrant ceiling of color. This plant is often grown with multiple trunks but it can be trained to a single trunk as a small tree. It is a fast grower with stems to 25 feet or longer. Blue Chinese Wisteria, Wisteria sinensis, is a twining, woody vine valued for its pendulous clusters of extremely fragrant violet-blue flowers. Chinese Wisteria is a shade tolerant vine, but it only blooms when grown in partial to full sun. Leaves consist of 7 to 13 leaflets of large size; after flowering, very attractive, velvety pods are produced, containing seed. ... details