Texas Gardening: Wisteria question, 2 by drthor

drthor wrote:
terry_emory
when I moved to TX 6 years ago I was so excited because I finally could grow WISTERIA (which it didn't really do well in Florida).
Growing up in Italy, I remember how I was lookig forward to the smell of Wisteria announcing the arrival of spring.
So I did plant 2 small plants on each side of my new home.
It bloomed on the second year ... just beautiful.

well ... is started to sucker every where ...even 8 feets away ...
It started to move the rain gater .... going around my roses strangling them ...

A friend of mine said that she saw a video on tv of an old house in TX crumbled by a wisteria vine ...
It took me 3 years to finally get read of this monster ...

I never realized that in Italy the Wisteria grows around brick/stone constructions ... while here most of the houses are made of wood.

Here some pictures of my Wisteria in Dallas