Going to go backwards here - you know if you (and now is a good time) cut your bougie back all the way to just a couple of branches, you'll get a whole lot more smaller ones growing out and they'll be more in proportion to what should be a fatter trunk - more like a mature and interesting tree rather than just a house plant gone wild. Ok, the wisteria will take ~ 8 yrs to flower, so don't hold your breath anytime soon. The size is absolutely irrelevant, but health is, so give it just what it needs, which is of course to be outside - plant it in the ground for 2 yrs and watch it take off! Then when it's got some bulk on the trunk and more development (more options for styling), then you treat it like the bougie - chop it right back to only one 'trunk' and wait for new twiggy ones to form with smaller everything (though flowers will remain the same always, you can't shrink them). Let it get tall enough (at least 10-12") so that your eventual flowers will not look ridiculous, and give it lots of sun and water while you're waiting.

So your plant is very tiny - yes? If it is not root-bound (you were right about the description of root-bound) and you want to plant it in a larger container, I would either use a soil that is amended to drain very quickly, or place the current pot & all in a container filled with soil that is as large as you want. When you water, water your plant thoroughly and keep the soil in the larger container damp. B - Yes, wisteria is often grown in very small containers as a bonsai specimen where it flowers & grows with good vitality. ;o) Al

Nell, I've seen white wisterias in gardening mags, but never one that a real, live, person grew in their real yard! (hehehe) That is beautiful! I truely love your bird tangle under the Dogwood tree!!! Gorgeous combinations. I have a pink flowering Wisteria shrub/tree. The leaves are just beginning to bud out. It is about 6 feet tall. Can't wait for it to bloom...someday. Even so, it is a lovely specimen with its pretty leaves and twisted trunk. The purple grew wild in the woods in Louisiana. A friend and I would load all our kids up into her big old beat up looking station wagon and we'd drive out into the country to see the wisteria up in the tall pines every spring. It was a special event and we took a picnic along with us for when we found a special place where we could stop and see "the prettiest one of all" that year. The kids all looked forward to it as much as we did. The air would be filled with the "grapey" fragrance. So, I have been wanting my own Wisteria ever since. It only took me 20+ years to get one! (Jeez. Can't believe it was that long ago.) Beautiful pictures Nell. I love how your framed the second photo with another wisteria. How artistic of you! I love Libby's garden shed too. (I remember her story about it, too- hehehe). ~Annie

Yama, How right you are there is a ton of information about Dr. Casper, The Oxford University Press had this to say; The name of this vine was given by Thomas Nuttal, curator of Harvard's Botanical Garden, who made an error in spelling the name of the man he planned to honor. That man's name was Wistar. But at the death of the honoree in 1818, the plant was named wisteria. Nuttal wrote in his Genera North American Plants II , "In memory of Casper Wistar, M.D., late professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania." But too late. Nuttal had already named the plant wisteria. The following I discovered at Associated Content published by Donna and thought was interesting as well. The world's largest wisteria vine grows in Sierra Madre, California. There is even a festival honoring this mammoth wisteria vine and the plant's namesake. The Wistaria Festival takes place annually in this community in California that is home to the more than 100 year old wisteria vine. The popular and showy wisteria vine was originally named Glycinia after the word "glykys," which is Greek for sweet. An American naturalist, Thomas Nuttall, renamed the wisteria in the 1800s to honor a renowned botanist at the University of Pennsylvania. Even though the plant was named in honor of Professor Casper Wistar, his named was accidentally misspelled and the 'a' was replaced with an 'e'. The name was never changed, and wisteria has been the common and botanical name of this plant ever since. The masterpiece wisteria vine growing in California is so large that it has received a place in the 'The Guinness Book of Records'. It has been named as "The largest blossoming plant in the world." This amazing wisteria vine is more than one acre in size and weighs 250 tons. It has more than 1.5 million blossoms every year with 40 blooms per square foot. The branches of this unbelievable wisteria vine reach an amazing 500 feet long. Horticultural experts have estimated the branches can grow 24 inches in 24 hours. The world's largest wisteria vine is a beautiful lavender Chinese variety. It was planted in 1894 by William and Alice Brugman. The couple bought the plant at a local nursery for 75 cents and planted it near their home. They eventually sold their home twenty years after planting the wisteria. H. T. Fennel bought the home and fell in love with the wisteria vine and began building arbors for it. The wisteria vine continued growing and became too large for the supports erected by Mr. Fennel. The huge plant eventually began growing onto the house. The roof could not support the weight of the giant wisteria vine and finally the roof collapsed. The house was demolished in 1931. They built a new house close by. New supports kept being added for the wisteria and it was allowed to continue growing. This extraordinary wisteria vine was honored with its first festival in 1918. This tradition has continued every year since. The festival has approximately 15,000 visitors each spring to celebrate the world's largest wisteria vine. This magnificent antique wisteria vine has been named one of the seven horticultural wonders of the world. It takes an honorably place with the gardens of Buckingham Palace, the redwood forests of Sequoia National Park, Brazil's tropical jungle in the Amazon Valley, India's gardens of the Taj Mahal, Japan's Yokohama rockgardens, and Mexico's Xochimilco floating gardens. Thanks yama and I we can view Mr Kawaharada's photos. kt