Today I’m Loving. . .Wisteria
March 31, 2010
As I dropped off my son at his morning preschool, I couldn’t help but notice this incredible wisteria vine in bloom – it left me speechless. ‘Tis the season for this climbing woody vine bursting with intense color and intoxicating fragrance.
So I took a walk on a spring day to admire some of my neighbors’ climbing beauties, and to take some time to smell the wisteria.
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it,
it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to
someone else. Most people in the city rush around so,
they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see
it whether they want to or not.”
- Georgia O’Keeffe
Wishing you a lovely day !
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I love wisteria too, but it is not blooming here yet. I spent part of my afternoon at a local park taking pictures of flowers that are blooming now to put on my blog. Everything was so gorgeous and all of our flowers are not even blooming yet. We still have azalea bushes to bloom, as well as dogwood trees. Daffodils are in full bloom here and they are my favorites!!! Thanks for sharing your beautiful wisteria pictures. Love & blessings from NC!
Those are beautiful!! I want to smell them so bad :)
I LOVE wisteria also! Ours aren’t blooming here yet, but I can’t wait. And, I have to admire other people’s wisteria because my husband forbids me to have them in our yard! grrrrr
I just love the wisteria. Growing up in Texas, a neighbor had a beautiful arch of it over her walkway. I used to go and stand under it just for the beautiful sweet smell. We planted some on the corner of one of our outbuildings, hoping it would grow up and over it to “pretty it up”. Alas, apparently it didn’t like it’s location. But I haven’t given up. I’m determined to have at least one stand of it.
there was a path i walked everyday in college and this time of year a ceiling of wisteria would cover it – oh, how i miss it!!
Wisteria does smell lovely, and they are beautiful flowers. However, as a plant, it’s an invasive vine that will take over everything it comes into contact with. I’ve had several “encounters” with Wisteria vines in two of my homes (they were planted by the previous owners) and if you don’t stay on top of it and keep it trimmed, it will suffocate the trees around it, wedge it’s way under siding and fences, and take over everything in sight. Now I just enjoy it from afar but I would caution anyone thinking of planting it in their own yard.
I love wisteria. These pictures remind me of when I lived in Sierra Madre, CA. They have a Wisteria tour each year. A couple of houses a a wisteria plant that grows in both yards.
So pretty….I wish blogs had a scent feature to go along with those pics!