BlueBell Arboretum & Nursery

Mail order trees, shrubs, conifers and woody climbers

Description

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!

Supplied Size: 2L deep containers (30 - 50 cm tall) 

• Position: Full sun.
• Soil: Moist or well drained, fertile soil.
• Hardiness: Hardy.
• Flowering Period: May - June.
• Flower Colour: Mauve-lilac
• Rate of Growth: Vigorous.
• Habit: Wisteria floribunda 'Macrobotrys' grows to be a 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 the branches of Wisteria floribunda 'Macrobotrys' back to create stumpy spurs in August and February.