Wild, Wonderful Wisteria

Is there something you have seen that is so beautiful you can hardly stop looking at it?
That you take so many photos of it that your SD card is nearly full?
I have...I do...and I did.
It's wisteria.

WISTERIA INTO SPRING
~a poem by Thelma Elizabeth Zaracostas

Upon opening the curtains

To welcome the day

You were standing there

Your head hung low

Your endless array of purple

Clinging to your slender limbs

 

You waved as the gentle breeze

Blew your delicate fragrance

My way

I love spring when you are in Full bloom

My beautiful magical plant

Wisteria.

 

It started out as a single stick, probably about 8 or 10 years ago.
One of our patients at the clinic where I work had brought me a start off of hers.
During a conversation we had I'm sure I must have mentioned something about wisteria
and how smitten I was with this gnarled and tangled up mass of purple-ish pleasure.

I'm not sure about your area, but I never grew up seeing this in Ohio,
or even when I lived in Kentucky, for that matter.

 

For the past few years, it had gotten zapped with an early spring freeze and had little to no blooms.
It was a couple of weeks ago I noticed the slight hint of purple at the bottom of the driveway.

It starts out as these fuzzy little pods sprouting from the l-o-n-g, winding vines.



The vines will climb up anything close to it...in this instance, what once was a small pine seedling.



Let me just say that they became very close friends that have pretty much grown up together :)



I actually think if you stood there beside it long enough,
 it would become one with you as well!
  

These photos were taken over just a few days...


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...and once you see the first hint of violet, it's quite amazing the change the next day will bring.

 

We have seen many boring bees already buzzing around the house,
 but after the wisteria bloomed...

 

...I think just about every bee in the neighborhood was swarming around it.



I took my life into my own hands getting these shots :)

 

If I had to count them, I'd say there were...too many!

 

 

But I just couldn't stop myself...snap, snap, snap...

And just when I thought I was finished, I turned to go back up the driveway...

 

...and was mesmerized how the early evening sun had made these drooping beauties glow...

...snap, snap, snap...

~

Surely, there will be wisteria in heaven...there just has to be!

~

I will be heading to the sea shore tomorrow for a little spring break weekend with the grands!

YEEHAW...I'm so excited!

I'll catch up with y'all when I get back!