Reflecting the author's lifetime fascination with wisterias, this beautifully illustrated book traces the history of wisterias since their introduction from China and Japan, examines and attempts to resolve their often tangled nomenclature, and provides detailed information about cultivation and care.
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Reflecting the author's lifetime fascination with wisterias, this beautifully illustrated book traces the history of wisterias since their introduction from China & Japan, examines & attempts to resolve their often tangled nomenclature, & provides detailed information about cultivation & care.
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36 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Should be entitled "History of the Wisteria",
By Eyes Wide Open (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wisterias: A Comprehensive Guide (Hardcover)
The author is clearly an authority on the vine (or tree or shrub...), but I found the book overflowing with the history of each variety with little information or advice on how to grow. I reviewed the book again today as I went out to prune my wisteria and couldn't even find the work "prune" or "pruning" in the index! It's a beautiful history book with lovely pictures but far from a "how-to" guide, if that's what you're looking for. Perhaps I didn't look closely enough at the book's description before purchasing!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Thank you for sorting out this mess of wisteria varieties,
By A Customer
This review is from: Wisterias: A Comprehensive Guide (Hardcover)
Peter Valder has done a wonderful service in sorting out the confusion that surrounds wisteria varieties. He has written what appears to be the first book on the genus in a European language. It is a splendid account of both the history and the genus Wisteria the result of much painstaking research. His findings have been have been taken up by the Royal Horticultural Society. The book is beautifully written with superb photographs. I and others regard it as a minor classic. Should be on every gardener's bookshelf along with his more recent magnificent "Garden Plants Of China".
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent information on specific varieties/cultivars,
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This review is from: Wisterias: A Comprehensive Guide (Hardcover)
As a lay home gardener I found this book to be a bit on the academic side. It seems to be written with Wisteria connoisseurs in mind. However, I did find the Wisteria history to be interesting. And, the pictures are definitely worth taking a look at. The photos showing Wisterias being used in different growing situations was very helpful.
The list of individual Wisterias was helpful to me in selecting a good cultivar for my particular site. After reading the section on care and training, though, I would have to disagree with the author that Wisteria's aren't that much work. To me they appear to be quite a gardening commitment.
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With the magic of the expanding inflorescence buds in spring, the form, colour, scent and arrangement of the flowers, the elegant disposition of the foliage, the fascinating pendulous seed pods, the autumn colour of most kinds and, particularly in winter, the wonderful gnarled trunks and twisted branches of old vines, wisterias have few competitors when it comes to garden ornament. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
keel darker, twining anticlockwise, multijuga alba, keel elements, greenish yellow blotch, twining clockwise, tinged mauve, inflorescence buds, twines clockwise, calyx purple, wisteria pergola, floral bracts, white wisteria, broad leaflets, scent faint, violet form, long racemes, autumn colour, deciduous climber, axillary racemes, cultivar names, bold foliage, terminal panicles, other cultivars, specific epithet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chinese Wisteria, Arnold Arboretum, New Zealand, Horticultural Society, Clarke Nursery Company, Louisiana Nursery, North America, Osvald Siren, United States, South Korea, Florence Du Cane, Kasuga Shrine, Ernest Wilson, Liu Yuan, National Treasure, Robert Fortune, Camden Park, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Hortus Third, Mount Wilson, Zhuo Zheng Yuan New!
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With the magic of the expanding inflorescence buds in spring, the form, colour, scent and arrangement of the flowers, the elegant disposition of the foliage, the fascinating pendulous seed pods, the autumn colour of most kinds and, particularly in winter, the wonderful gnarled trunks and twisted branches of old vines, wisterias have few competitors when it comes to garden ornament. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
keel darker, twining anticlockwise, multijuga alba, keel elements, greenish yellow blotch, twining clockwise, tinged mauve, inflorescence buds, twines clockwise, calyx purple, wisteria pergola, floral bracts, white wisteria, broad leaflets, scent faint, violet form, long racemes, autumn colour, deciduous climber, axillary racemes, cultivar names, bold foliage, terminal panicles, other cultivars, specific epithet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chinese Wisteria, Arnold Arboretum, New Zealand, Horticultural Society, Clarke Nursery Company, Louisiana Nursery, North America, Osvald Siren, United States, South Korea, Florence Du Cane, Kasuga Shrine, Ernest Wilson, Liu Yuan, National Treasure, Robert Fortune, Camden Park, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Hortus Third, Mount Wilson, Zhuo Zheng Yuan New!
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- The British Isles (Cambridge Regional Geography) by A. V. Hardy on page 3, and Back Matter
- Flowers & Gardens Of Japan (Kegan Paul Japan Library) by Ducane on page 64, and Back Matter
- History of European Botanical Discoveries in China (Ganesha - Reference Library of Asian Studies) by Emil V. Bretschneider on page 27, and Back Matter
- Trees and Shrubs: Hardy in the British Isles (Volume II: D-M) by W. J. Bean on page 3, and Back Matter
- Trees and Shrubs (WI Creative Gardening Series) by John Kelly in Back Matter
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