White Japanese Wisteria

Wisteria floribunda Alba

• Position: full sun or partial shade
• Soil: fertile, moist, well-drained soil
• Rate of growth: fast-growing
• Flowering period: June
• Flower colour: white
• Other features: velvety, green seed-pods in hot summers; all parts of the plant are harmful if ingested
• Hardiness: fully hardy

  
  This elegant white Japanese wisteria produces extravagant clusters up to 60cm (24in) long of fragrant, pea-like, white flowers in June and light green leaflets, turning yellow in autumn. Less vigorous than many other varieties it's ideal for training against a sunny house wall. To enhance flowering prune the twining stems twice a year.
  

• Garden care: In the first growing season tie in lateral shoots and cut back sub-lateral shoots to two or three buds. During the first winter cut back laterals by one third and sub-laterals by two or three buds.