Help with Wisteria please

[nelliegemini]

My Wisteria is just starting its third season and I have noticed these buds. I'm sure they weren't here last year (although last year I was so busy in the veg patch I might not have noticed).

Is there any chance they could be flowers? The plant also has some hard brown buds which I am hoping are dormant leaf buds. It hasn't flowered before obviously being such a baby but I am hoping thses buds are the flowers.

Any news - good or bad would be welcome.

[crichmond]

Definately a flower bud , check the link below.

Cheers Chris

shirls gardenwatch: Wisteria flower bud

[nelliegemini]

Wooohoooo (dances round in mad excitement).

Thankyou Chris - although all I've done is shoved it in the ground and pruned it once or twice I'm really proud (had a bit of 'you'll be dead by the time that flowers' from neighbour).

[crichmond]

(had a bit of 'you'll be dead by the time that flowers' from neighbour).

Watch out for the neigbour coming home with a shotgun he might not have been on about old age...