Late Blooming Japanese Wisteria Basics (Wisteria floribunda)

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Hey you guys! I hope y'all enjoy this brief info video on the Japanese Wisteria. A very romanticized, hardy vine that blooms abundantly. It is a legume (Family Fabaceae). This variety behind me here has a later bloom time. Some Japanese Wisteria will bloom in June and July, this cultivar doesn't bloom until later. There are also Chinese Wisterias (Wisteria Sinensis), which have a different growing habit. they're much quicker to climb and have a far deeper purple bloom pigment than the Japanese Wisteria does. Japanese Wisteria grows to an impressive height of 25 feet when it is not pruned. it can create vigorous basal colonies when they arent kept in check too. Japanese Wisteria has a blue-purple bloom that persists for a few weeks. In my opinion, Japanese Wisteria has more striking autumn colour than its Chinese counterpart.

Basic Growing Advice:
Wisteria needs a lot of space. make sure you plant it in an area with a lot of leg room. This plant has vigorous, girthy anchor roots that can damage hardscape. This plant also needs something to climb on. Wisteria does not bloom very well when grown close to ground level. These vines need a strong, permanent structure. Much like the trumpet vine, these specimens grab onto structures really tightly, and can damage them. This plant likes hot, warm summers. It favours drying out between waterings. It's exceptionally cold hardy too! In my observation, I find that it's more cold hardy than the Chinese Wisteria, and the Silky Wisteria (Wisteria brachybotrys), which is a smaller more compact variety, ad well as the Frutescent Wisteria (Wisteria frutescens). This plant has a cascading form at maturity. I don't recommend planting anything under it, if it is not shade tolerant. Mature vines tend to produce a whole lot of shade. This plant is pretty versatile as far as cutting propagation goes. personally, I've found success growing it from woody cuttings, Suckers and advantitious shoots, semi ripe hardwood cuttings and softwood cuttings. Softwood cuttings, where you remove 4 to 6 nodes worth of new growing tips, and root in water or fertile media, tend to be a fast, common method for reproducing this plant in the summer, but I find that those cuttings have less cold hardiness in the first few seasons, and tend to develop mold if you water them in too much. Hardwood cuttings taken in the dormant season are more successful in general, producing hardier plants, however they are slower to regenerate and awaken from a dormant state. These plants have a saponin (a bitter chemical complex), called Wisterin which is very toxic. for this reason, I do not recommend planting this vine in an area with young children and or pets.

Have a good day you guys! Stay blessed. wish I could have made this video more in depth but I had to catch my shuttle bus:/ As always, let me know if you have any questions or would like to know more, and thank you for the support :)
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