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Re: Wisteria in flower

Posted: September 16th, 2013, 5:15 pm
by Jason
Hoping to collect one myself soon :) Just waiting on word from the owner of the block :fc:

Re: Wisteria in flower

Posted: September 16th, 2013, 7:18 pm
by cre8ivbonsai
63pmp wrote: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 :tu: 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 :palm: better next year :fc:

Re: Wisteria in flower

Posted: September 16th, 2013, 8:57 pm
by 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

Re: Wisteria in flower

Posted: September 21st, 2013, 6:45 pm
by 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/

Re: Wisteria in flower

Posted: September 22nd, 2013, 9:14 am
by 63pmp
Lucas,

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

Paul

Re: Wisteria in flower

Posted: September 22nd, 2013, 9:42 am
by kcpoole
63pmp wrote: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 :lost:

Ken

Re: Wisteria in flower

Posted: September 23rd, 2013, 5:43 pm
by hard1all
my favourite colour
white!

Re: Wisteria in flower

Posted: September 23rd, 2013, 5:52 pm
by hard1all
not actually a bonsai
in the ground
but it is a wisteria in flower
and it is white!

Re: Wisteria in flower

Posted: September 23rd, 2013, 6:51 pm
by Hackimoto
Can I ask what that grafted standard next to the wisteria is please? Grevillea or a weeping conifer of some type?

Re: Wisteria in flower

Posted: September 23rd, 2013, 7:05 pm
by kcpoole
Lovely there Hard1

the white flowers are nice :-)

Ken

Re: Wisteria in flower

Posted: September 23rd, 2013, 7:59 pm
by 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

Re: Wisteria in flower

Posted: September 23rd, 2013, 9:01 pm
by hard1all
Hackimoto
It's taxodium distichum
a weeping form of swamp cypress
grafted as a standard
named 'Cascade Falls'

Re: Wisteria in flower

Posted: September 23rd, 2013, 9:56 pm
by Hackimoto
Wow!!!!Where did you get it? Does anyone else know where this is available?

Re: Wisteria in flower

Posted: September 27th, 2013, 5:21 pm
by klaery
My ones effort. Much later than others around here :lost:

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Re: Wisteria in flower

Posted: September 27th, 2013, 5:41 pm
by Jason
Hackimoto wrote: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 :tu: