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By Jean Brandau, About.com Guide to Huntsville, AL since 1999

Wisteria: The South's Most Beautiful Vine

Sunday March 29, 2009
Even before the popular TV show "Desperate Housewives" chose "Wisteria Lane" to live on, wisteria was one of my favorite Southern plants. Images of romantic, hazy, lazy days of the South just aren't complete without this gorgeous vine dripping from porches, trees and fences. Even Claude Monet loved the plant and made it the subject of one of his paintings. Wisteria is just too beautiful to ignore--I wish I had some in my yard--in the meantime, I'll just have to admire everyone else's.
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