World’s Largest Blossoming Plant

wow..the plant could be its very own Wisteria Lane! It could probably replace all those actresses on Desperate Housewives.

When I volunteered at the zoo wisteria was the bane of my existence. For every piece trimmed, 10 more sprouted. So it seemed.

I bought shoots and tended to them for years and finally got a nice flowering vine running up a tall sturdy tree, right before a property dispute put that tree into the neighbor’s yard.

That’s nice.

Lea, I have a friend whose family planted a wisteria by their house fourteen years ago and it hasn’t once ever blossomed or spread.

I’ve always been a fan of them myself… I don’t think I’ll ever have one, though, not being the sort interested in having a garden.

There’s an old trick to get wisteria to bloom at a certain time. You have to stress the vine. If you’re going to host a wedding, you go out and sling chains against the vines a week before. Makes them bloom just in time!

Amazing!