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Nursery Direct
Chinese Wisteria
Wisteria sinensis
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
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Chinese Wisteria - Wisteria sinensis
Wisteria sinensis is a heavy, woody, long-lived deciduous climber that produces pendulous racemes of scented mauve-blue pea flowers in spring, mostly before the leaves emerge so the whole framework is hung with blossom at once. Its stems twine anticlockwise and thicken into genuine timber over the years, which means the support has to be built for the job rather than borrowed from a fence. Planted well and pruned twice a year it becomes the defining feature of a pergola for decades.
Why Chinese Wisteria
Spring raceme display: Flowers hang in racemes of roughly 20 to 30cm, opening almost simultaneously across the plant.
Flowering on bare wood: Blooms largely ahead of the foliage, so nothing obscures the display.
Fragrance: A sweet, distinctly grape-like scent that carries across a courtyard on a still spring morning.
Summer shade, winter sun: Dense leaf cover shades a pergola through summer then drops to let winter sun through.
Structural longevity: Trunks thicken and gnarl with age, becoming a sculptural asset in their own right.
Toxicity warning: The seeds and pods are toxic if eaten, so site it away from play areas.
Siting note: It can naturalise in cool, moist districts, so keep it off gutters, downpipes and neighbouring trees and remove suckers as they appear.
Ideal Applications
Pergolas and walkways: The classic use, with racemes hanging clear through the overhead structure.
Verandah posts and beams: Trained up a post and along a beam for seasonal shade and spring colour.
Heavy-duty wall wires: Espaliered flat onto a wall with substantial galvanised wire and masonry anchors.
Standard or tree form: Can be trained onto a single trunk with a weeping head where there is no structure to climb.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 3 to 4m along a pergola or wall run
Spacing (feature/avenue): 5 to 6m for standards or free-standing specimens
Best Planting Season: Winter while dormant, or early spring before bud break
Soil & Drainage: Deep, moisture-retentive, well-drained soil; avoid high-nitrogen feeding, which drives leaf growth at the expense of flower
Establishment Care: Water deeply through the first two summers and tie the leaders onto their support as they extend, since unguided growth quickly becomes a tangle. Prune twice a year, shortening whippy summer growth in January or February and cutting those spurs back to two or three buds in winter, and keep runners and suckers off adjoining bushland and neighbouring fences.
Plant Details
Height: 8 to 12m on a strong support
Width: 4 to 8m spread
Growth Rate: Fast
Foliage: Deciduous
Light: Full sun for reliable flowering
Native to: China
Flower Colour: Mauve to lilac-blue, fragrant
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
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How It Works
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We Supply
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We Deliver
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We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







