Description
Older and larger specimens of Wisteria floribunda 'Macrobotrys' standing at 140 - 160 cm tall in 5L containers.
Popular and elegant climbing plant with attractive green foliage and large mauve-lilac, fragrant and trailing flower racemes up to 80cm long. A popular plant for training along wires or up trellis against a sunny house wall or fence and Wisteria floribunda 'Macrobotrys' is also extremely attractive when grown through established trees or shrubs!
Features
- Common name: Japanese Purple Flowered Wisteria.
- Position: Full sun.
- Soil: Moist, fertile soil.
- Hardiness: Hardy.
- Flowering Period: June - July.
- Flower Colour: Mauve-lilac
- Rate of Growth: Vigorous.
- Habit: Large climbing plant which requires support as it will not self-cling.
- Height: 8 m (26 ft)
- Spread: 8 m (26 ft)
- Notes: Prolific flowering can be encouraged by pruning branches back to create stumpy spurs in August and February.
- Size: 5L containers (140 - 160 cm tall)