Q: It’s always a challenge to perfect the perfect garden year to year. Daily, I try to meet those challenges and somehow there’s always about 30 percent of my garden that somehow needs extra attention ...

Proper pruning, exposure and fertilizer will lead to blooms worth boasting about. Grace C. of Santa Rosa asks: I have two wisteria plants growing up a big, sturdy arbor. It has grown quite a lot in ...

snails will come out of hibernation, and the wisteria will bud out in great profusion. Or maybe not. Nothing is more frustrating to gardeners than a wisteria that fails to bloom. For few plants are ...

Q: We have a wisteria planted on the south side of the house (plenty of sun) that grows prolifically each year (in the ground for six years) but has not produced a single bloom. I read something last ...

Q: I live in Bella Vista. We have a wisteria vine climbing on our pergola. It's probably 20 years old, gets plenty of sun and is watered by our in-ground sprinkler system. It seems to be healthy, but ...

Q. I have a white wisteria that I planted three years ago, and it has never bloomed. What do I need to do? — M.Y., Cleveland A. Wisteria can take years to bloom, even more than three. Grafted vines ...

Summer is well underway and questions are flooding in to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU Extension faculty and Master Gardeners ...

We haven’t had to worry much about watering so far this growing season, but since rain can suddenly shut off completely in summer, always be ready with the hose, watering can, and/or sprinklers. Plant ...

CORVALLIS – Wisteria delivers a beautiful spring display, but this vigorous vine needs plenty of pruning to keep it from swallowing the garden. “Wisteria are very vigorous vines and can climb easily ...