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Bruce and Gill host the class once a year in the springtime, when their wisteria vines bloom with purple flowers.

There were often surprise presents delivered in the truck: One birthday, it was a purple wisteria tree; one Valentine’s day, it was a vintage O’Keefe & Merritt stove.

A venerable wisteria dripping with chains of purple blooms is breathtaking.

Proxenos said one of the things she likes best about her house is the wisteria, planted in 1998, that blossoms in the spring on some of the outside walls.

"I think of wisteria, a falling down house, crazy women, lots of stuff that doesn't seem salient to me, but who the hell cares?"