Wisteria might look like a plant straight out of a fairytale garden, but if you choose the wrong type, it could easily spell disaster for your yard.

The sweet-scented purple fluffy flowers are most likely Japanese and Chinese wisterias, both considered invasive.

However, many non-native vines are bullies, taking over your garden, clambering over shrubs, and climbing up and choking out trees and native ... Chinese wisteria has woody vines with large ...

The famous Wisteria display at Old Westbury Gardens is pruned nine months out of the year so the vine stays nice and tidy and ...

HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — All those purple flowers we’re seeing hanging in trees right now may look beautiful, but looks can be deceiving. Depending on the type of Wisteria you have ...

Chinese wisteria (Wisteria sinensis), with its attractive ... derives its name from the three-pronged "claws" it uses to climb up tree trunks, fences, and walls. If left unchecked, cat’s-claw ...

The wisteria’s gnarled woody base measures in at an incredible 135-inch circumference, braiding around itself and its neighbor. Wisteria are known to wind their way up whatever is nearby and ...