I love wisteria. We had a lovely Triffid-like wisteria at Eden, which would require a hearty annual trim to remove all the new tendrils from the eaves and guttering.
Above and below: Triffid-like Wisteria
In pondering where we could have it at WBP it dawned on me that the traditional place for it would be growing up the columns on the colonnade. When we went to Houghton they have a lovely thick specimen there growing around columns of their pergola...
Other examples of wisteria-clad colonnades and pergolas...
A very well maintained, and probably very young Wisteria...
