Can't Fight It, Help It - Saga of a Wisteria

Betty says, 

We bought our home over 30 years ago when it was under construction.  When we moved in, there was no landscape in the front or back yard.  Over the years we built the solid fence around our property and we planted many many trees, shrubs, flowers, lawn, ....

Among all these plants, there was a Wisteria that was planted just outside our walk-out window next to the deck.    When the deck showed its age and suffered damage from the elements, we had the deck torn out and replaced it with a sun room in the early 1990s.   The Wisteria was cut down and roots dug up.

Each year there would be shoots from the Wisteria coming up and we cut them off. Year after year, the Wisteria never gave up, kept on fighting for its survival.  

In 2009, we finally decided that instead of fighting the Wisteria, we might as well help it to grow.    Albert build two pergola structures, one of them was featured on

http://ncag.blogspot.com/2009/10/pergola-in-yard.html

Now both structures are covered with the Wisteria that was planted over 30 years ago but was not allowed to grow for half of its life.    Its ability to survive is to be respected.