The Wisteria Gazebo is blooming RIGHT F^CKING NOW!!1

[Lex]

These are 2 I took today at Sarah P. Duke Gardens. They only bloom a few short weeks each year and it's happening now. Smells so sweet too.




Fromt the inside:



:hi:

[Pierre.Suave]

1. Is this anywhere near...

Wisteria Lane?

lol...bad TV reference there...

[Lex]

2. I had to google it

because I have never seen an episode of that show! :hi:

[Pierre.Suave]

4. me either

I saw a commercial for it the other day in which it was mentioned.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear Lex!

Oooh, what gorgeous pics!

And I agree, their fragrance is just amazing...

Spring is actually here!

Thanks for sharing these...

:hug:

[Lex]

5. Thanks Peggy.

I was so happy to get by the gardens at the right time this year. Last year I was a week too late and the blooms (and fragrance) were over and done with for the year. :(

[SeattleGirl]

6. Gorgeous!

One of my sisters has a wisteria tree just outside her kitchen window, and it's so beautiful when it's in bloom.

Thank you for the pics.

[Lex]

7. A lot people think they are a nuisance and chop them down

but if they tended to--shaped properly as a tree or grown on a trellis or gazebo they can be spectacular when in bloom.

I can see them growing wild out in the woods right now, twisting around trees and blooming up high. SO pretty.

[SeattleGirl]

8. I would NEVER want to chop one down.

They are definitely one of nature's finest gifts.

[Maddy McCall]

9. That looks like a dream.

My god, that is gorgeous.

[CC]

10. If you can ever time it right

and go to New Orleans when the wisteria is blooming you have to go eat brunch at the Court of Two Sisters in the court yard under the wisteria.

Beautiful picture and still waiting for my PITA (pain in the ass *) wisteria to bloom.



*PITA because I have the wrong kind and it is invasive. I have to keep at it with trimming and killing offshoots to keep it from killing the trees. There is a right kind that is not as invasive. Next time I will know better but I refuse to kill what I have because I love it when it blooms.

[MonkeyFunk]

11. I ripped out some old wisteria I had

on a bower near the house. The plant was NUTS growing up over the house, into the chimney, etc., and for what? Two weeks of pretty flowers? Nah...

I'll put a bougainvillea in - it blooms for months and months.

[Lilith Velkor]

12. ooh pretty

I likes me some flowers. Here's where I was last week.

[unsavedtrash]

13. Great pictures.

My wisteria is blooming and all over the side and backyard. I should try to reign it in but I can't bring myself to cut it back.

[raccoon]

14. We have lots of wisteria too. I think it's so beautiful. nt

[siligut]

15. Beautiful pics!

:loveya: The artistry of your photos does those wisteria justice.

[marzipanni]

16. Those are great photos of a beautiful subject!

There is a wisteria vine in Sierra Madre, California, that was planted in 1894 and it now covers over an acre. It was named one of the seven horticultural wonders of the world, and the Guinness Book of World Records named it the largest blossoming plant in the world.
http://www.sierramadrenews.net/wistaria.htm

[kwassa]

17. we just have forsythia peaking now, and many cherry trees coming out

magnolias are also beginning to bloom.

[Shine]

18. gorgeous!!

they're in bloom all over on the west coast, too! 'tis the season....

:hi: Lex!

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. Lovely! We don't have much for flowers here in Maine yet. A few early bulbs here and there

[Fire Walk With Me]

20. Phone your florist right fucking now?

[Sanity Claws]

21. Beautiful!

Come up to New York next month and you'll see it blooming in Central Park.

[BarenakedLady]

22. Beautiful!

:D