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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: saddad on May 11, 2006, 17:18:11

Title: Wisteria
Post by: saddad on May 11, 2006, 17:18:11
Lets see if I can insert a pic.
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e190/Plot52/KingsNewton.jpg)
right lets see, well that seemed to work!
Drove past this beauty on the way home tonight!
:)
Title: Re: Wisteria
Post by: lorna on May 11, 2006, 21:59:37
Very pretty. I looked at your profile curious which part of the country you are,
(not being nosey) I just love that wall and wondered where it was.
Title: Re: Wisteria
Post by: flossie on May 11, 2006, 22:03:01
I had a look too because you had a look and I have no idea.

Very smart wall - I agree Lorna
Title: Re: Wisteria
Post by: Jill on May 11, 2006, 23:40:14
Nice wisteria, lovely wall!  Looks like a Cotswold sort of wall - that's my guess.  Come on Saddad, spill the beans.  If not where you are, at least where the wall (and wisteria) is (are) ;D
Title: Re: Wisteria
Post by: KevB on May 12, 2006, 07:29:30
He may not tell !!! as the last letter of his name should have been an "m" (typo)  ;) ;) ;)
I agree about the wall and the wisteria!! I'm still waiting for mine to flower after moving it last year! Now had it 3 -4 years and not a flower so far! :'( :'(
Get a cutting sadda-
Kevb
Title: Re: Wisteria
Post by: saddad on May 12, 2006, 20:00:23
Derby, Derbyshire UK... sorry not hiding in any caves although there are some on the Trent.... The Wisteria is on the wall of Kings Newton Hall, near Melbourne. I presume the stone came from Stanton by Bridge, the nearest quarries at that time about 2miles on the packhorse road. The bridge in question is Swarkestone Bridge, probably the longest surviving medieval causeway in Europe. About five miles from Castle Donnington / East Midlands Airport or whatever they call it now!
;D
It looks even nicer today, more open flowers but I didn't have the camera, it is my short cut home when the M1/A50 decide to become one big car park!
;D
Title: Re: Wisteria
Post by: lorna on May 12, 2006, 21:50:12
Saddad  Many thanks. I have only visited Derbyshire on about 6 occasions, In a lorry with husband when we had haulage. Some beautiful countryside.
Title: Re: Wisteria
Post by: flossie on May 12, 2006, 21:56:47
thanks Saddat- by coincidence we will be out that way on Sat/Ssun are staying with friends in Castle D.
Title: Re: Wisteria
Post by: saddad on May 13, 2006, 09:23:15
There are two runs of this size on that wall Flossie and some others on the opposite side of the road, which are shaded and so are a bit later, the thatched pub opposite was the home of the original Newton Wonder cooking apple!
;D
Title: Re: Wisteria
Post by: flossie on May 13, 2006, 10:59:33
Think I may have been there before..over thirty years ago.  Can remember my Dad driving past a place and telling me that was where the Newton Wonder came from.

Thanks, maybe we'll get a trip down memory lane.  I love wisteria.