wisteria

Methinks there's a genius Roams in the mountains, Girdled with ivy And robed in wisteria, Lips ever smiling, Of noble demeanour, Driving the yellow pard, Tiger-attended, Couched in a chariot With banners of cassia, Cloaked with the orchid, And crowned with azaleas; Culling the perfume Of sweet flowers, he leaves In the heart a dream-blossom, Memory haunting.

The Countess Olenska had said "after five"; and at half after the hour Newland Archer rang the bell of the peeling stucco house with a giant wisteria throttling its feeble cast-iron balcony, which she had hired, far down West Twenty-third Street, from the vagabond Medora.

Wisteria thrives on a sunny wall in a well-draining but moisture-retentive soil.

| SUMMER-PRUNE wisteria. Cut back long whippy shoots to about six leaves.

SPRING may seem a long way off, but if you prune your wisteria now, you should have masses of beautiful hanging flower racemes (clusters) in a few months' time.

| SUMMER-PRUNE wisteria - this just means cutting back long whippy shoots to about six leaves.

| Summer prune wisteria - this just means cutting back long whippy shoots to about six leaves.

Whether it's rose covered, festooned with fragrant wisteria, or adorned with clematis, an arbor evokes a sense of wistful nostalgia and beckons one to linger in the garden setting.

The wisteria vines that claim the old mill school run through town and on to the river.

Two of the most popular varieties in Britain are Wisteria floribunda (Japanese wisteria) and Wisteria sinensis (Chinese wisteria).

And it's hard to go anywhere in the UK at the moment without spotting a glorious wisteria in full flower.

And it's hard to go anywhere at the moment without spotting a glorious wisteria in full flower.