Party Time!

You are cordially invited to a party celebrating the forthcoming blooming of the Wisteria, a rare sight that has taken 7 years .  Last year there was one lonely little bloom .

The First Showing 2010

Today while out in the garden I couldn't believe my eyes.  The Wisteria tree was full of buds!  

This is a Chinese Wisteria which is pretty finicky in Chicago's climate.  I purchased this standard  ( vine grafted onto a tree trunk ) 7 years ago when it was reduced from $500 to $100.   I was about to whack it down when I decided to go all out in a last ditch effort to make it produce blooms.  I root pruned it severly and cut back the branches to within a few shoots and applied triple phosphate .   Of course I think I also threatened it with " Bloom dammit ! "    My efforts finally paid off.

Now if we can have some sunshine please and get the celebration started.


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Garden Bloggers' Muse Day

May

'Tis like the birthday of the world,

When earth was born in bloom;

The light is made of many dyes,

The air is all perfume:

There's crimson buds, and white and blue,

The very rainbow showers

Have turned to blossoms where they fell,

And sown the earth with flowers.

- Thomas Hood

Happy Birthday, world !  And to me and Judy Collins, TimMcGraw and Rita Coolidge, all born on the 1st of May !

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