Check who's photo made it to Plant City's website...

[Cadillactaste]

I was browsing Plant City's site after seeing on Facebook they had a new video up on their site...after I watched it...I browsed around and was happy to see my bonsai tree that I gotten from them. I had shared the photo on their Facebook wall...and am honored it made it to their website.

http://www.plantcitybonsai.com/media

This one...

 

[Brian Underwood]

Very nice! I'm pretty sure that one came from my neck of the woods originally, a place called Miniature Plant Kingdom. He sold all his stock off and shipped it cross country. Japanese wisteria? Geisha?

 

[Cadillactaste]

Very nice! I'm pretty sure that one came from my neck of the woods originally, a place called Miniature Plant Kingdom. He sold all his stock off and shipped it cross country. Japanese wisteria? Geisha?

Yes...it came from California...though...I thought he made a trip there to a supplier. Adair would know more...he teaches classes there and knows about this shipment that the wisteria came in on.

As to the variety...he wasn't sure.

Here is a close up of it when it first started to bloom.

 

[Brian Underwood]

Looks like mine, which is a Japanese (not the usual Chinese) wisteria, which he called "Geisha." The Japanese Wisteria have slender, much longer flowers than the Chinese varieties, which I personally prefer. Beautiful little tree. To keep it blooming, do not trim it, just let it grow until next spring, and then you can differentiate the flower buds and trim at that time. Have fun!

 

[Cadillactaste]

Looks like mine, which is a Japanese (not the usual Chinese) wisteria, which he called "Geisha." The Japanese Wisteria have slender, much longer flowers than the Chinese varieties, which I personally prefer. Beautiful little tree. To keep it blooming, do not trim it, just let it grow until next spring, and then you can differentiate the flower buds and trim at that time. Have fun!

Appreciate the heads up on the variety...for I totally was clueless. And thank you...I do find it to my liking. And again a shout out to Adair for giving me the tip of where to locate it. I read to trim in Jan/February...this is incorrect then? And again in July/August.

Food for thought...thanks.

 

[Brian Underwood]

That's sort of correct. Keeping them blooming is tricky and I've heard advice two ways; let them grow all year and prune before spring, and the other way is to limit "tendril" growth as in Michael Hagedorn's blog posts http://crataegus.com/2012/01/06/why-wont-my-wisteria-bloom/ and http://crataegus.com/2013/05/15/more-on-growing-wisteria/

 

[Poink88]

Congrats!

 

[Adair M]

I just happened to be there when they were unloading the truck! I don't know where Steve got this. He's been selling bonsai for years, so he has a lot of contacts in the business. (And getting more...)

I'm glad it's doing well for you!

I really don't know wisteria... But I seem to remember that they do need to be left alone ( no trimming) so they will set flower buds. This is a "seasonal bonsai". That is, when they are in bloom, they're spectacular. The rest of the year they look awful, and go to the back of the bench! Then, late winter?, they're cut back to bloom again. There's a technique...you'll need to do some research. If you try to keep it pinched back so that it "looks good" as a bonsai during the summer, it won't bloom.

Good luck with it!