Purple Wisteria should be planted in a hole two or three times the width of the pot. Add some organic material like compost, rotted manure or peat-moss to the soil you took from the hole.
So this is a plant that will grow almost anywhere. It will grow well and even produce more flowers, if the soil is not so rich and a little dry in summer. The Purple Wisteria grows quickest in rich soils, but you should not give it too much water or fertilizer as then it will make a lot of leaves but fewer flowers. It will grow well even in colder regions but will rarely flower, so it still makes an excellent leafy screening plant for those regions. Purple Wisteria is hardy in zones 4 to 9, so it can easily be grown right across America except for the hottest and coldest areas. The leaves turn a beautiful yellow color in fall, before dropping to reveal the gray, gnarled stems and branches. The main flowering takes place in spring before the leaves appear, but in warmer areas some flowers are also produced throughout the summer. The blue-purple flowers are like those of a pea, but gathered into large clusters a foot or more in length. The light-green leaves are large with many segments. The young stems cling by spiraling around a fence, pole or other plants, so that the flower-clusters hang down. In time the stem will thicken and become a small trunk, with strong branches. It can grow 30 feet as a climber if left un-pruned, or with regular pruning grown on a medium-sized arbor or pergola. Purple Wisteria is a climbing plant but it can also be trained into a beautiful and different small tree.
It is also rarely if ever eaten by deer, so it makes a great screen on a fence separating you from a forest or wild area. This plant is drought tolerant when established and has few if any pests or diseases. With pruning it can easily be controlled to cover smaller areas too.
Purple Wisteria is a rapid grower and will grow 10 feet in a season, so it will very quickly cover the largest fence or wall. Modern plants mix the best features of both these plants to bring gorgeous hanging clusters of blossoms to every garden. In the garden it has also been crossed with the Japanese Wisteria ( Wisteria floribunda). The Purple Wisteria ( Wisteria sinensis) grows wild in many parts of China. Even if you don’t have a fence or arbor to grow this plant, it can, with care, be trained into a small tree with an attractive, grey, twisted trunk and horizontal or arching branches which will be hung with those beautiful fragrant purple flowers every spring. Not only that but it will fill the air with its rich, beautiful perfume for weeks. This vigorous, easy to grow climbing plant can be used to cover walls and fences, hide ugly old trees or bring amazing beauty to trellises, arbors or pergolas.
If you love the idea of large, blue-purple, scented clusters of flowers in profusion hanging down in your garden each spring, then Purple Wisteria is the ideal plant for you. If you have a trellis screen, or want to have a beautiful arbor or pergola over your walk or driveway, the Purple Wisteria is the ideal plant for you. If you have a large, rather ugly fence or wall on your property, or if need a plant to cover part of a building or brighten-up an old tree, then the Purple Wisteria is the idea plant for you.
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