Come back wisteria!

Last year I was pleasantly surprised to learn that I have two wisteria plants growing in my front yard. Wisteria is one of my favorite plants. It has all the elements of plants I love: it is droopy, fluffy and romantic, it is purple, and it is a spring flower (again, spring being my favorite season). I never knew they were there because my brother-in-law (old co-owner of the house) used to cut it back to try to kill it every year. Don't even get me started on his gardening skills, or why anyone would want to kill a wisteria plant!
To make sure the wisteria has a chance for a healthy comeback, this year I decided to secure trellis to the exterior wall in the front yard so that it can grow freely. It was tricky attaching the trellis. First of all, the walls are stucco, basically like a layer of cement on the walls, a normal bit on a screw wouldn't stand a chance. I needed my dad to bring his heavy duty drill bits. Second of all, the trellis needed to have a spacer so that it would not be flat against the wall, prohibiting the wisteria vines from wrapping around the trellis and blocking the circulation of air flow to the back of the plant. PVC pipes provided the perfect spacer, but it was difficult to find screws long enough to go through the trellis, spacer, and the wall. Third of all, there are all sorts of boxes and pipes on the house (I honestly have no idea what they all are) so the trellis had to dodge those.
We broke a drill bit and cracked the wood of the trellis because we screwed to far, but we made it work.
Here's a "before trellis" shot. Notice the wisteria is climbing up one of the random pipelines on the front of the house (now the trellis will hide all this, yay!)The wisteria on the other side of the window is much slower to come back, but it's there.


And the "after" shot:

I tried to salvage as much of the plant I could, but I had to cut off about half of the growth from last year to free it from the pipeline.
It's already so much happier.

Notice the PVC pipe and the odd boxes on the front of the house that will soon be covered with wisteria.

Fingers crossed that next spring the plant will be happy enough to hive me a blanket of purple blooms.