It would take seven years before our wisteria cutting would come into bloom, the experts told us in 2003, and we said we would wait. (Some varieties take as long as 20, some as few as 3. The world's largest wisteria is in California and covers an acre. See Wikipedia for more of this stuff.) We stood by patiently until finally, this Memorial Day weekend, we saw what looks like the beginnings of a matured woody wisteria bush climbing on our storm deck, almost ready to strike up a full chorus of purple blooms, like the mass we saw in the ad. The tough, grasping vines have scarcely begun this year's twists and turnings, but hello, color of our future. More waiting. Desperate housewives, not quite yet!
