Raraflora NurseriesWisteria Nursery - Raraflora, Jaspers Brush, NSW
This wonderful deciduous creeper would rate as one of the best garden plants in Australia when grown well. Wisteria are happy to grow in most conditions but prefer full sun in moist well drained soil.
We graft all our wisterias to ensure our customers receive plants with early vigour and flowering. Any sucker growth emerging from below soil level should be removed.
Wisteria date back up to 20 million years.
This is a fast growing climber that will flower more prolifically if the new season’s growth is pruned by three quarters in summer (when the leaves are still on) NOT in winter.
Note that pruning when the climber has shed its leaves will almost ensure little to no flowers the following spring, as the growth which produces new flowers will have been removed!
Colours range from white, pink, blue, mauve, violet and purple on several different varieties.
The spring flowers of most are highly scented and several have good autumn foliage.
Wisteria make spectacular standard specimens, are magnificent over a pergola or similar, perform well in containers and can also easily be grown as free-standing shrubs.
The main varieties are Floribunda (Japanese), Brachybotrys (Japanese) and Sinensis (Chinese). There are also Wisteria Frutescens and Wisteria Macrostachya, both native to North America and quite a few hybrids, several of which we grow. Raraflora has grown over 70 different wisteria varieties over the past 20 years and we have reduced our list to the best of these. Visit out Online Shop for our range and photos of each.
A word of advice on buying wisteria. Wisteria are quite easy to propogate from seeds and so are quite often sold at local markets as well as retail nurseries. Unfortunately what many sellers won't tell you, is that when grown from seed, wisterias will not be identical to the parents, and may take many, many years to flower, or may never flower at all. So a $ or two of saving won't be a saving at all, when you wait year after year for the beautiful blooms to arrive. We recommend that if you can't find what you are looking for in our Online Shop, buy wisterias through a reputable retail nursery and look out for those that are marked as "Grafted". Even better, go shopping in spring and buy those with blooms on them in the pot.