In message , Sacha
writes
On 9/8/05 12:18, in article ,
"Kay" wrote:

In article , Sacha
writes
Only you really know how much frost your garden gets etc. Charlie is right
about wall protection, though. However, round here, Wisterias are grown
over arches and pergolas to create avenues and along the wooden rails of
bridges etc. It will all depend on just how sheltered your garden is,
really.

Ours is flowering happily on a pergola in Yorkshire, in a shaded garden.
Latest frost can be up to first week of June, but the wisteria doesn't
flower till after that. Maybe it can cope better with consistent late
frosts, rather than late frosts which happen some years and not others?

I've had no experience of growing Wisteria any further north than
Devonshire, Kay. ;-) Going by what you say, it appears that the
flower buds don't get 'knocked back' by late frosts if they're not
severe ('because' they're not severe?) I know that most Wisterias are
frost hardy but do recall that an old one I had on the house wall in
Jersey performed very poorly after one particularly hard (for Jersey)
few days of frost. I suppose it's possible that Jersey plants 'go
soft' because of a false sense of security!
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Sacha

I think you're both right - ours on a south-facing white-pained wall
flowered beautifully in the seventies and eighties. In the nineties it
started to bud earlier and earlier, with the result that the buds froze
almost every single year - until this year, when it did flower
beautifully again (even though I think there was some frost once it had
budded)

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Klara, Gatwick basin