Wisteria was named after an American anatomist Casper Wistar and it is a genus of woody climbing plants of the pea family (Webster's Dictionary)....
In the shady far corner of my back yard there was a plant that kept coming up every year. It didn't look particulary interesting. It was hardy but had no flowers. I took a sample of its leaf to a nursery and I was informed that it looked like a Wisteria leaf. I have a Wisteria plant in my back yard!!! but where are the flowers????. I always wanted to grow them in my yard. Now I had this opportunity 
to have one of my own. I decided to keep a close eye on it. I watered it, fertilized it and waited for a year, nothing happened. The following year I decided to tie the new saplings to the fence. They took and started to move on the fence but still no flowers. Well , I kept extending the string each year and waited patiently. Still nothing... and I vigilantly kept extending the string.... Well last year my husband and I were gardening and he said "look at these buds your Wisteria is finally blossoming" I thought he was joking, because first, I had not seen a budding Wisteria plant and these looked like shriveled grapes on a vine and second I waited almost four years without success. How could it be? But I hadn't given up on them also. I was jumping with joy. (Yeah little things like that make me happy). We had exactly five flowering bunches. That was last year...... Look at them now I have a whole fence full of them. . AAhhh Wisteria.. I love Wisteria.. It smells heavenly specially on balmy spring evenings...
to have one of my own. I decided to keep a close eye on it. I watered it, fertilized it and waited for a year, nothing happened. The following year I decided to tie the new saplings to the fence. They took and started to move on the fence but still no flowers. Well , I kept extending the string each year and waited patiently. Still nothing... and I vigilantly kept extending the string.... Well last year my husband and I were gardening and he said "look at these buds your Wisteria is finally blossoming" I thought he was joking, because first, I had not seen a budding Wisteria plant and these looked like shriveled grapes on a vine and second I waited almost four years without success. How could it be? But I hadn't given up on them also. I was jumping with joy. (Yeah little things like that make me happy). We had exactly five flowering bunches. That was last year...... Look at them now I have a whole fence full of them. . AAhhh Wisteria.. I love Wisteria.. It smells heavenly specially on balmy spring evenings... Isn't life the same way ? Nurture sometimes overcomes the Nature.
(PS. This picture is taken in May not February. I finally adjusted the dates in my camera).
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