White Chinese Wisteria Plants

White Chinese Wisteria Plants

White Chinese Wisteria is a great, vigorous climber with strings of fragrant white flowers in May-June right before the bronze tinged new leaves unfurl. It needs a sturdy support to support its weight. It can also be trained as a specimen, on a frame in a large pot or planter. To 8-12m x 5-8m.

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Features

• White Chinese Wisteria
• Large deciduous healthy climber
• Short strings of pure white flowers in May-June
• Will grow to 8-12m x 5-8m
• Lovely sweet perfume
• Anti-clockwise twining
• Fully hardy
• Needs support

Growing White Chinese Wisteria

It'll need sturdy support and so a pergola, pillar or wall with vine eyes and wires, spaced at 12" distances, will work well. It'll also grow over established trees as long as it's kept in check.

It's fully hardy, but strong winds will damage the leaves and flowers, so a sheltered site is best. It'll need a fertile, moist but well-drained soil and prefers sun, but dappled shade is fine.

History & Trivia

This variety was introduced in 1846 by the Royal Horticultural Society, having been collected in China by the Scotsman Robert Fortune (1812-1880), the man credited with taking Chinese tea to India, where the locals enthusiastically mixed it with milk and spice to make chai, rather than drinking it pure or flavoured with flowers like jasmine after the Chinese style: this is one reason why Britain is unusual for drinking milky tea when almost all Europeans take it with a squeeze of lemon.