"Sacha" wrote in message
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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!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

Well our wisteria buds are evident by the end of march and it is in full
flower by first week of may and we have been known to lose flower because of
frost, although its been less of a problem since the plant became large and
established.

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)