WISTERIA venusta 'SHOWA BENI'

silky wisteria 'Showa-beni'

WISTERIA venusta 'SHOWA BENI'

silky wisteria 'Showa-beni'

Hardy deciduous climber. Big pink flowers on short fat racemes.
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  • Maintenance advice : At the end of winter, Cut short, keeping 4-5 flower buds per branch (bigger and rounder than the leaf buds). In autumn, shorten, about 20cm, length of shoots
  • Botanical/Horticultural origin : Horticultural origin : cultivated since the Showa era (JP)
  • Use group : Climbers
  • Height at 10 years : 4 m
  • Width at 10 years : 3 m
  • Growth : Fast
  • Fragrance : Yes
  • Exposure : Sun - Half shade
  • Evergreen/Deciduous : Deciduous
  • Shape : climbing
  • Colour of leaves : Green
  • Colour of flowers : Pink
  • Soil type : Garden soil
  • Uses : Climber
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Vigorous, melliferous with an abundant, heavily perfumed flowering. Large pink-mauve and white flowers (the largest in this genus), appearing April-Mai, united in lovely dense bunches of 15-25cm. Will flower young and makes a good bonzaï. A good plant to prune into a shrub, and a small climber. Deciduous leaves of 9-13 leaflets that remain on the plant a longtime in autumn. Synonym : venusta 'Rosea'. Its name means : red of the Showa era. Branches wrap in an anti-clockwise fashion.