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Posted by irish_rose_grower z7 LI NY (My Page) on Sat, Jan 27, 07 at 22:53
| I"m trying to find a wisteria standard through an online source. I found one at whiteflowerfarm for like 150.00 -- way too much for me. I found gurneys had one for like 24.95. I don't know either company. Anyone know a good source with a price that's not too high?
Thanks
Maureen
ps. I want the blue or lavendar one
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RE: Wisteria standard, who sells?
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| I found wayside gardens (who I know isn't top rated) has a 4' standard of wisteria 'prolific'. Does anyone have any experience with this type? They have it for 79.00, which is much better than 150. but if i'm getting a wisteria I want it to be very fragrant. Anyone know? Thanks |
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| I have seen "prolific" used in many catalogs and nurseries as a nicer way to say "invasive". |
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Silverkitty, I was wondering how it got the name prolific.
Makes sense, as now I'm finding out the jap anc chinese varieties are very invasive. I wonder if grafted, if it would be less "prolific".
Anyone know? |
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| What is it grafted on to? I wonder why it would be grafted. I have seen pics of them in tree form but to me it just looked like the older, thick stems of the vine were trained to grow like trunks. Sorry I can't help! $150 seems so high of a price, they grow so fast maybe you can just train the vine yourself and save $. |
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| Home Depot here in Ca sells the Chinese purple type in 5 gal pot at very good price . You might check HD first before they order. Truely it is very fast growing. However I have seen a westeria pruned into an impressive 6-7 feet tree. The trunk was made of 3-4 main vines twisted into one, shaped branches just like an umbrella with clusters of hanging flowers. That means it should be pruned every year, |
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they are very easy to form by doing it yourself. heck, they grow so fast here that you can have one in a couple of years. stake the most prolific branch to an upright position and trim lower growth.
also, you could use the native american species for this. it is a slower groing vine and has smaller flower clusters that would be more in scale with the dimensions of your pruned tree. the fragrance is not as strong but still there. |
Here is a link that might be useful: floridata - wisteria frutescens
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| I just placed two separate orders for two tree-form Prolific Wisteria with Wayside. I paid $80 per tree, minus a 20% discount. These trees were grafted and grown in the Netherlands and sold here in the U.S. by Wayside. The catalog says the flowers are "fragrant." The term Prolific refers to its flower strength because the racemes bloom all at once, rather than any invasiveness of the branches or the roots. That is not to say the roots and branches are not invasive also. I read somewhere that grafted wisterias bloom sooner than cutting grown plants and definitely much sooner than seed grown plants. It's also possible that the grafted rootstock will be less invasive than the native growth habit of Prolific itself. You can get cutting grown wisterias for much less than $80 at Gurney's, but I'd rather have a grafted plant. I am uprooting two absolutely no-maintenance but totally unremarkable landscape trees to make room for these very high-maintenance tree wisterias because I just love their beautiful blooms and am willing to put in the work to get there. Steve |
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