tulip & wysteria

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  1. WTxDaddy

    WTxDaddy In Flower

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    One of my wysterias started to bloom today and I found another tulip strong enough to bloom - after 3 seasons! (Unusual in West Texas!)

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    petunia Young Pine

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    Great picts. Your weather is ahead of ours so It'll be a month or two before I have anything up like lillies. For now I'll enjoy looking at others. Thanks for posting.
     
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    Droopy Slug Slaughterer Plants Contributor

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    Well done tulip! I like the Wisteria, but we can't grow them because of the frosts.
     
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    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    Some of my tulips are beginning to bud up but no flowers yet. I hope my wisterias flower this year and look as look as yours do. :stew1:
     



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    WTxDaddy In Flower

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    frosts

    We get pretty cold here in Winter - even below 10ºF sometimes. The wysteria survives that. Is it that it gets too cold for too long in Norway?
     
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    Netty Chaotic Gardener Plants Contributor

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    That Wisteria is gorgeous! I've planted a Carolina Wisteria - the only one that is hardy enough here. It didn't do too much last year so hopefully it will flourish this year.
     
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    wysteria

    I believe what I have are wysteria sinensis.
     
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    Re: frosts

    Probably. They grow and flourish further south, but up here we can get -12 deg C/10 deg F for long periods at a time, and also several frost periods every winter. I've got a very good place to the south, and I'm sorely tempted to try one there. I think they're lovely.
     
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    Looks amazing, i am growing Wisteria from seed and so far so good.
     
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    Sherry8 I Love Birds!

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    I love the color of the Wisteria...it finally calls for 40's and 50's at the end of the week for us...thanks for bringing in a little bit of spring for us that have nothing right now..
     
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    Droopy Slug Slaughterer Plants Contributor

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    Thanks for the link. We're in USDA zone 7, so I'll have to find something hardier.

    Edit, no, I don't have to find anything hardier. I got a bit confused, because the lower the zones here, the milder the weather, which is of course quite the opposite from the US. :rolleyes: I'll have to get a nursery to order it for me, that's what I'll have to do!
     

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