Sitting outside, cold and ignored, in 2015 this plant put out a few blooms; only three, but it's looking pretty good. For 2016, it was ahead of its siblings in bud swell and ended up being the choice for the art show reception on April 24th. It was late enough into spring after a mild winter we had trouble slowing it down!

Spring 2014 we attempted to get back in the groove — we hoped! This plant was heavily root pruned and installed in an authenticke Dave Thomas pot. We brought it indoors and hoped to have it in bloom for the April 27th Perkiomen Valley Art Center Membership Exhibition reception. That would integrate this fourth wisteria back into that tradition. The 2014 show reception was at the end of the exhibition, and the exhibition was later in the year, so we were guessing a bit on timing. At the time, the buds were just barely beginning to swell sitting outside, though we couldn't be sure if any were blooms. ARGH! After a week, it appeared there were only leaf buds — whattaya gonna do! So we took it as a "portable jungle" along with its sibling which managed to bloom on extremely short timing.

In spring 2013 this plant appeared to be well on the way to recovery, though it is winding up in a slightly different form from the pre-accident version.

2009: Alas, a catastrophe, although not quite a complete disaster. During a flurry of shifting many trees around before going away in May 2009, this poor plant fell off the bench one night — either wind from a storm or some critter messing around. In the mad multi-tasking pre-departure, Ye Olde Photog missed what happened — the plant landed about 45 degrees short of upside down and was somewhat covered by weeds/flowers considerably down a steep hill from the bench. This unhappy event was not discovered until sometime — a week or so — after YOP's return. Sniff, sob, it looked like a true crispy critter.

With all fingers and toes crossed, the poor thing was repotted in a deep tub and given a good soaking. After a couple of weeks of looking at dead sticks — VOILA! — some sprouts appeared. They were all down almost at the base so we just let it go for a month or two. When two of the new runners got to be five feet long, the original branches were checked unsuccessfully for green cambium, then cut back a bit, leaving some for support stakes. The new sprouts were thinned down to three. The two long runners were cut back in length and tied to the old branches. Time will tell, but a recovery looks possible, although it's unlikely to bloom near term.

The second art show outing is shown in 2008 (in a Dave Thomas pot).

Followed by a sequence of forcing blooms for the March 20, 2005 PVAC art show opening.