In my travels, I occasionally come across a particularly
nice display of a native plant in a designed landscape. I usually take a photo
of it, but I don’t always have a chance to work that into a blog. So this will
be a new and occasional series for the blog to feature good landscape examples.
American wisteria (Wisteria frustescens) is an attractive native vine that blooms later than the invasive wisteria species we see on the roadside. It does very well on a structure in the garden, whether it be an arbor or pergola or just a chain link fence. It flowers after the leaves have already emerged, and the flowers are only lightly fragrant. It is not as aggressive as its cousins and maximum length is about 40 feet.
It is most often sold as the cultivar ‘Amethyst Falls’ which
was a wild selection noted for good landscape qualities (deep color, early
flowering). Unlike, the non-native species, American wisteria usually flowers
in its second year, making it a better selection for that reason alone!
Read more about American wisteria on the Virginia
Native Plant Society’s website where they profiled it as their 2021
Wildflower of the Year.
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