The wisteria has been lovely this year. Normally at its peek in the spring, it is usually finished blooming by summer. However, with all of the rain & cooler weather it has continued to be beautiful right into July.
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One of my neighbors has a porch completely covered in it, which creates such a lovely shaded spot to sit & enjoy the fragrance of the blossoms.
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I asked her one day the name in French, & she told me "glycine". I then told her the name in English, to which she immediately said "Wisteria Lane?" I had to laugh, it seems that you just can not get away from some things American. Apparently "Desperate Housewives" is very popular in France.
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Also pretty this year are the Trumpet Vines dripping with their beautiful orange & sometimes yellow flowers.
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These vines are very reminiscent of my childhood. I always called the flowers trumpet flowers but am not sure if that is the proper name.
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If anyone knows I would love to find out. Here they climb over doorways & hang dangling atop windows,
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or grow over forming an arch. You find both of these lovely vines all over this area & this year they have both been especially pretty.
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Sally, I love wisteria, but have none growing here. I definitely connect it with a trip to Bandol six years ago. As for the trumpet vine, we have lots of that. Here's what Wikipedia says about it: "The trumpet vine or trumpet creeper (Campsis radicans), also known as "cow itch vine" and (in horticulture) as "hummingbird vine", "
ReplyDeleteFunny, because when we bought this house, we saw a hummingbird on the trumpet vine.