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Blue Chinese Wisteria
This plant is often grown with multiple trunks but it can be trained to a single trunk as a small tree. Chinese Wisterias are deciduous. It is probably best used for training to grow onto an arbor where flowers can droop and form a fragrant ceiling of color. Chinese Wisteria is a shade tolerant vine, but it only blooms when grown in partial to full sun. It is a fast grower with stems to 25 feet or longer. It is perfect for covering patios, arbors or fences. Leaves consist of 7 to 13 leaflets of large size; after flowering, very attractive, velvety pods are produced, containing seed. Blue Chinese Wisteria, Wisteria sinensis, is a twining, woody vine valued for its pendulous clusters of extremely fragrant violet-blue flowers. The vine often climbs trees, and is most striking when seen in full bloom draped from the limbs of a high pine. ... more
Wild Fox Grape They have large, three-lobed leaves with teeth on the edges. Wild Fox Grapes can be used to make juice, jellies, jams, conserves, and preserves. The fruit is extremely important to wildlife as well as being a most important grape in the development of North American viticulture. The Wild Fox Grape, Vitis labrusca, is a woody vine which can climb over thirty feet tall. These fruits develop considerable sweetness after the first frost. It is also called skunk grape. Wild Grape can be found on streambanks, pond edges, roadsides, and in open woods. They can be used in pies and pastries too. Wild Fox Grapes bear purplish-black berries and are the source of many cultivated grape varieties. |
