Wisteria Plants
When wisteria blooms, summer is on its way! Wisteria is the ultimate feature plant - a vigorous climber with woody vines covered in bunches of warmly fragranced flowers which can transform a wall, pergola or front porch while also attracting bees and butterflies to your garden.
Which wisteria?
All of our wisteria plants are grafted varieties for better flowering - never buy one grown from seed, as they can take up to 20 years to bloom! The most highly fragranced wisteria are white Shiro Kapitan Fuji and violet Sinensis Prolific. Floribunda (lilac blue) and Floribunda Rosea (pink, purple and white) have the longest sprays of flowers, reaching up to 30cm in length! For a more delicate fragrance, choose Okayama (violet blue) or Sinensis Alba (white). Find out more about choosing your perfect wisteria.
Planting schemes and partners
Plant your wisteria near seating areas, windows, doors or patios to fully appreciate the sweet, grape-like fragrance of the flowers. For longer lasting colour and fragrance, plant summer flowering climbers alongside it - roses, clematis and honeysuckle come into flower just as wisterias finish, giving you a continuous floral display. For such a flamboyant plant, wisteria fits remarkably well into every planting scheme from stately home influenced formal gardens to the homespun charm of a cottage garden.
Growing tips
Wisteria plants can reach a height of over 10m, so choose somewhere with plenty of space to grow - a south or west facing wall or solid structure is ideal. Wisteria needs a position in full sun or partial shade. You will need to tie the wisteria vines into your wall or structure with wires or plant ties as the vines grow. Wisteria can be grown in pots but they will not be as successful as those planted in soil. Wisteria are fully hardy perennials and will flower year after year. To encourage more flower production, feed every spring with a high potash fertiliser and prune twice a year in August and February. Wisteria thrives in any fertile well-drained soil. For more detailed advice on how to grow Wisteria, check out our growers’ guide.
The classic Chinese Wisteria, often seen dazzling in May
- Happy in full sun to partial shade
- Ideal for training up a pergola, wall or arch
- Flowers from May to June
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
The largest flowering Wisteria with spectaular lavender-coloured racemes up to 1m long!
- Happy in full sun to partial shade
- Ideal for training up a pergola, wall or arch
- Flowers from May to June
- Enjoy the sweet floral fragrance
A prolifically flowering wisteria with a classic fragrance
- Fantastic violet floral cascades to ring in the summer
- Beautiful green foliage will cover archways, pergolas, and walls
- An RHS Award Winning variety for its spectacular blooms
- Woody vines add fantastic natural, rustic charm to any structure
Award winning variety with a wonderful fragrance
- Wonderfully fragrant lilac-blue flowers
- Early blooming from May to June
- Train up arches, pergolas, walls and fences
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
Flowers falling snow in the heat of summer
- Beautiful trickles of daisy white blooms
- Beautiful green foliage will cover archways, pergolas, and walls
- Flowers from May to June
- Beautiful green foliage to cover an archway
Let it rain rose-pink petals
- Flowing flowers of delicate pinks, purples, and whites
- The ultimate plant to train up structures
- An RHS Award Winning variety for its spectacular blooms
- Beautiful green foliage to cover an archway
Grape bunches of violet blooms
- Unmistakable wisteria lilac and violet floral waterfalls
- Beautiful green foliage will cover archways, pergolas, and walls
- An RHS Award Winning variety for its spectacular bloom
- Irresistible to bees and butterflies
Summer is here when wisteria appears!
- Covered with lilac blue flowers in tumbling clusters
- Classic fragrance of summer evenings
- Ultimate climbing plant for trees, doorways or arches
- Spring and early summer flowering
Sweet scented bunches of silky white flowers
- Highly fragranced
- Perfect twined over a porch or archway
- An RHS Award winner
- Irresistible to bees and butterflies
Rose pink climbing clusters
- Flowing flowers of delicate pinks, purples, and whites
- The ultimate plant to train up walls
- An RHS Award Winning variety for its spectacular blooms
- Beautiful green foliage to cover an archway
Snowy white drifts of wisteria
- Happy in full sun to partial shade
- Ideal to train up a wall or pergola
- Flowers from April to June
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
Deepest purple feature climber
- Dark violet-purple flowers with a light fragrance
- Colour changing foliage for year-round interest
- Ideal feature plant for a sunny wall or pergola
- RHS Award winner
Bright white clusters of perfumed flowers
- Japanese Wisteria with short racemes of fragrant, Snow-white flowers
- Flowers from May to June
- Brings brightness and a superior perfume to archways or walls
- RHS Award winning variety
Large flowered, two toned purple Wisteria
- Two toned Violet and Lavender flower racemes up to 50cm long
- Flowers from May to June
- Ideal for fragrance and colour on a patio pergola
- Fully hardy, long-lived perennial–will flower year after year
Romantic soft Blue-violet flowering Wisteria
- Soft Blue-violet flowers in densely packed hanging racemes 25-30cm long
- Flowers from May to June
- Twines anti-clockwise through a tree or across a wall
- Long-lived hardy perennial with real bee-appeal
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