Daglan’s wisteria welcome

Our beautiful old village is, well, beautiful and old — but in the spring it gets even prettier as the wisteria in various parts of Daglan come into bloom, serving as a nice welcome to visitors. In this posting, I’ll show off two of the more impressive growths.

This first photo shows a large vine at the north end of Daglan, as the road veers to the right and heads up to the village of St. Cybranet. Here it is, growing on top of a large fence and over a gate:

All along a fence.

The next photo shows a wisteria even closer to home: a vine in full bloom that is growing up the front of a neighbour’s house, just a few doors down from us:

Against a neighbour’s house.

Loyal readers will know that Jan and I are the proud owners of two vines, one on each side of our front steps. I’ve written about them often, to describe how they are performing in the flower department. Once again, it appears that the vine on the right (as you face our house) is winning the flower competition. It has lots of flowers hanging down from the vine branches, but it will need a few more days before it’s at its best. When it is, I’ll be sure to show it off.