Wisteria in flower

[Jason]

Hoping to collect one myself soon Just waiting on word from the owner of the block

[cre8ivbonsai]

Here's mine. Rains are forecast for next few days, so probably the best it's going to look this year.

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Cheers

Paul

That's spectacular! Very nice Paul what's your secret

Mine, first year out of the ground, got only about four flowers, and if it stops raining between 5:45pm and sunset, I might get a photo. Then again they might be a washout better next year

[63pmp]

Hi Alan,

Confusion comes with using this years wood and next years wood etc. If you have a wisteria, look at a flower raceme, there are 4 or 5 buds with very small leaves before the actual raceme flowers begin. This is where next Springs flowers will come from. Vigorous spring growth in the form of long whips are unreliable for flowers, but can form them if the tree is strong enough. So when the leaves have fallen, you prune all of the shoots that had developed during the last 6 months of growth back to three or four buds (I do this mid winter. I trim each raceme, leaving all the leaves on the stem, just after they finish flowering, then trim back to a few buds in winter) .

Yes, the author has got his P's and K's mixed up. I don't like this approach to fertilizing, it's too much like veggie gardening IMHO.

Regards

Paul

[Lucas Sawman]

Hi Alan, why you don't use Coco peat. If you are not getting with used one fertilizer, then changed it and stick to that one only. You might be changing fertilizers again and again, it affects on the soil composition. So, I recommend that you to choose nutrients rich Coco coir. Read more about gardening with less eater here. This will definitely help you - http://landscapeandgardenblog.wordpress.com/

[63pmp]

Lucas,

Why do I get the feeling your a coco peat salesman?

Paul

[kcpoole]

Lucas,

Why do I get the feeling your a coco peat salesman?

Paul

I was wondering the same when I saw it yesterday and when looked at the links, thought maybe not as they are not direct links to shops or the like so a little confused too

Ken

[hard1all]

my favourite colour
white!

[hard1all]

not actually a bonsai
in the ground
but it is a wisteria in flower
and it is white!

[Hackimoto]

Can I ask what that grafted standard next to the wisteria is please? Grevillea or a weeping conifer of some type?

[kcpoole]

Lovely there Hard1

the white flowers are nice

Ken

[63pmp]

Thanks for posting up pics.

White wisteria are lovely, and some cultivars have spectacularly long racemes.

Nice to see so many people with wisteria, every bonsai collection should have a wisteria.

Paul

[hard1all]

Hackimoto
It's taxodium distichum
a weeping form of swamp cypress
grafted as a standard
named 'Cascade Falls'

[Hackimoto]

Wow!!!!Where did you get it? Does anyone else know where this is available?

[klaery]

My ones effort. Much later than others around here

[Jason]

Wow!!!!Where did you get it? Does anyone else know where this is available?

Just a bit of searching, seems to be very similar to another weeping form called "Falling Waters", which is from the US. 'Cascade Falls' is from the Cedar lodge Nursery in New Zealand and you can buy it here (altough I'm not sure about shipping/customs/etc.): http://www.conifers.co.nz/index.php/tes ... /view/4/60

There is a bit of talk in this thread about them which might help too : http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load ... 25912.html

hope that helps