That’s the situation right now at Ashikaga Flower Park in the town of Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture. The most dramatic of the in-bloom floral trio are the wisteria, or fuji, as they’re called in ...

Monet, with his artist's eye, planted wisteria everywhere. He grew a mauve- colored wisteria on the top trellis of his famous green Japanese bridge, and white wisteria on the lower span of the bridge.

TSUSHIMA, Aichi -- The "Owari Tsushima Wisteria Festival" is being held in a park here, where Japanese wisteria flowers are at their best. The 5,000-square-meter wisteria trellis in Tennogawa Park ...

Watch: Crowds flock to see wisteria trees in full bloom in Japan. From mid-April to mid-May, the park transforms into a floral wonderland. Last updated: April 29, 2025 | 13:10.

The wisteria is illuminated nightly from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. (Japanese original by Koji Hyodo, Nagoya Photo Group) In Photos: Waterfall-like wisteria in full bloom at Aichi Pref.'s Mandaraji Park ...

American wisteria and the closely related Kentucky wisteria ( Wisteria macrostachya) are woody vines, with a main stem like a tree trunk, and are deciduous, meaning they lose their leaves in winter.

Build an arbor or trellis and you have green shade. ... There is a 150-year old wisteria in Ashikaga Flower Park in Japan that is difficult to believe is actually real.

Japanese Wisteria made its way to the West in the 1830s. In American gardens, Wisteria has been valued since the 1720s. This ...

“The Journal of Japanese Gardening” article also encourages keeping the entire plant above the trellis or arbor, and preventing the flexible whips from wrapping around the trellis structure.