wisteria - Fine Gardening

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    Design

    Shopping-List Plants for the Northeast

    If you’ve run into a garden rut, we’ve got you covered. It’s time to start planning for your first trip to the local nursery or garden center. What plants will…

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    How-To

    How to Train Wisteria

    Few plants can put on a spring show as elegant and impressive as wisteria (Wisteria spp. and cvs., Zones 4–9), but like many vines, this plant can be aggressive. Thankfully,…

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    Article

    A Milder-Mannered Wisteria With Stunning, Fragrant White Blooms

    Wisteria is a vine that has always intrigued me, with its distinctive growth and flowering characteristics and its capacity to thrive almost anywhere. It’s a familiar, fragrant landscape component in…

  • Article

    A Garden Around an Enchanted Castle

    Today we’re visiting Narcisse Navarre’s garden. I'm in the Hudson Valley, New York, and I'm a novice gardener. I've been gardening for about five years since we bought our castle…

  • Article

    Mountain Top Magic

    My name is Myrna Mahon. I live on a mountain top at approximately 4700 feet elevation in Cullowhee, North Carolina. I have been gardening for about 20 years but only…

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    Design

    Plant Varieties to Try, Plant Varieties to Lose

    With the wide variety of plants at our fingertips, we should be experimenting with new plants all the time. But we often default to the same familiar cultivars, which is…

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    Design

    Pruning and Training Wisteria

    Well-placed summer and winter cuts will keep this vigorous vine manageable

  • How-To

    Types of Climbing Vines

    There’s a dogwood dying in my backyard next to the property line. My neighbor finds that nearly dead trees depress her, but for some inexplicable reason, until it’s completely gone,…

  • Design

    Regional Picks: Alternatives to Invasives – Southeast

    Invasive - Bradford Pear (Pyrus calleryana cvs.)     1. ‘Okame’ Cherry Name: Prunus ‘Okame’ USDA Hardiness Zones: 6 to 9 Size: Up to 20 feet tall and wide Conditions: Full…

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    Regional Picks: Alternatives to Invasives – Northeast

    Invasive - Yellow Flag Iris (Iris pseudacorus)     1. Cardinal Flower Name: Lobelia cardinalis USDA HardinessZones:: 2 to 8 Size: 3 to 4 feet tall and 1 foot wide…