The Beautiful and Deadly Wisteria - An Amazing Plant!

When I was a kid, I used to take walks around the neighborhood with my mom. Wisteria were our favorite flowers to see in peoples' yards because they smelled so nice. Mom decided to plant some at home. Supposedly it takes several years to bloom, so she trims and trains the vines to cling to our fence by the driveway. We seemed to have a very hearty wisteria, that was happy to cover the fence with bushy vines, but also desperately wanted to reach for the sky. After 8 years it never did bloom, but kept dropping these hard pod things, which no one else's wisteria had. Eventually some visitor noted this plant and said to my mom, "Wow, I've never seen anyone do that with a walnut tree before." "WHAT?!" Either we'd gotten a wrong seed somehow, or some squirrel planted his right as we were planting ours. Regardless, to this day I still tease mom about the walnut bush. XD

That must be a very safe area, no demons would dare go near there lol!

I bought my first house in 1996. I transplanted a small amount of wisteria against a fence soon after. My elderly new neighbor came to my door with a lilac bush he wanted to plant for me if I'd let him dig up the wisteria. He was a wonderful person who taught a young first time homeowner a lot about non invasive plants

Wisteria grows on a pergola in my garden in India ,it blooms in April for nearly a month , having morning tea under it is heavenly . I keep it under control rest of the year ,it is a price I pay for the lovely experience.

Guy says not to eat them Him two sec later: eats them

Climbing and strangling vines serve a very important role in dense forests. They will create meadows within a forest. When a stand of tree has been killed, the vines are then replaced by grasses that grow through the vines. Since the vines can't climb the grasses, the vines die off. The trees then return to the grassy meadow growing back into a dense forest which completes the cycle.

So this is why Shinobu uses it so much.

We've been battling Wisteria for over 20 years!!! The flowers are beautiful, but the vines were choking our other trees and bushes.

Fun fact: spiraling "vines" are actually called bines! Chinese wisteria is a so-called "left-handed" bine, whereas japanese wisteria is "right-handed".

We had a wisteria in the front yard that would go crazy on hot days and attack people. The pods would pop and shoot the seeds hard. The first time it happened we thought someone was throwing rocks at us. The plant was always getting yelps of pain and dirty looks from passersby.

In my school I had to do a project about invasive species and I picked the wisteria and this really helped me get more information

In Tokyo at Kameido Tenjin Shrine there is a Wisteria Festival every Spring. It’s amazing to see 100s of plants trained on a bamboo frame covering the courtyard. Amazing!

My mother planted a small sprig of this about 40 years ago on our back lot. It has taken over 2+ acres, choking down everything in its path until it reached the street. She tried to keep it cut back and manageable, needless to say I have been fighting this beautiful killer for the last 2 decades. I love it during spring time. Hundreds of beautiful purple blooms hang from the canopy above. The sweet scent lingers in the air as the sunsets. Then summer hits here in Tennessee and the loathing begins.

If planting in your yard, give it room, plant in a heavy, plastic pot in the ground, with lip above the surface.. Flowers well, limits it's growth . Kill growth with vinegar.

Wow, I’m glad I saw this. I got seeds online and had planned to plant a few of these in my property. But I live adjacent to about 250 acres of protected woodland. Probably shouldn’t plant these seeds here. Ha

"the most aggressive wisteria..." Points at screaming child

We had one by our back door. We called it the devil bush. It died out during a five year drought, was gone for two years, and then came back when the drought broke.

Just want to say short word.... .Total Concentration Breath.

The vines make great baskets. We have one that has been growing for 30 years. We trim that thing every year.

I love that you're both involving your children and teaching