You may have noticed that every Instagram feed in or around London has turned purple in the last few weeks, and that is because wisteria is upon us. For a few weeks in the spring, the wisteria blooms on houses and in parks, causing everyone to go nuts taking all the photos they can, and if you’re like me, to sneeze and sniff uncontrollably. Hay fever is real when the wisteria comes out, but I still have to go find it all. A word to the wise: pop a benedryl before you go wisteria hunting.
One thing that tends to drive me nuts when it comes to wisteria season, is how secretive Instagrammers can be when it comes to the locations of some of the best wisteria spots. The same house will be posted so many times, but no one will say where it is. So I set off on a mission to find the famous houses I kept seeing on my feed. It wasn’t easy. I spent a lot of time trolling comments first, then wandering aimlessly hoping to stumble across them, but after a few straight days of hunting, I think I managed to find most of the good ones. So here’s a little guide of what I found. Or just pretty pictures of wisteria for those of you who will not be looking for it in London.
When it comes to cute houses, Notting Hill is king, so when the wisteria comes out, these houses are even more epic. Take a stroll down Bedford Gardens and you will find A LOT of wisteria on one street, including that Instafamous house with the pink door.
I found this little cutie with a different kind of wisteria somewhere between Bedford Gardens and Notting Hill Gate, possibly on Edge Street.
You can find this beauty in Notting Hill on Campden Hill Road.
This house took me a while to find, but it’s so gorgeous with all of these colors. Maybe wander past Lonsdale Road if you want to see it.
Horbury Mews near Notting Hill Gate also has some wisteria, but is also just in general an adorable little mews street.
Holland Park, being neighbors with both Kensington and Notting Hill, also has its share of HUGE and beautiful houses, and it is home to one of the houses I have seen posted the most this year. It took me two trips to the area and a lot of asking around but I finally found the house on Ilchester Place.
The park itself also has a good display of wisteria near the cafe.
The other streets I had on my list in Holland Park were Ladbroke Walk (which had a cute house, but the owner was outside doing some things, so I decided not to be the paparazzi) and Landsdowne Cres.
Kensington also does not mess around with wisteria. In just one small area near Gloucester Road you will find some of the best wisteria displays. Probably the most famous in this area is the house in Kynance Mews.
From Kynance Mews, take a walk down Launceston Place, and if you’re lucky, you’ll catch both cherry blossom and wisteria in bloom (or at least a sidewalk showered in pink petals).
Here’s another one that evaded me for a long time. I must have spent hours on Instagram trying to figure out where this one is, and it turns out its been right under my nose down the street from where I went to school the whole time. Head over to Canning Place for this one.
Here’s a few others I stumbled upon in the Gloucester Road area of Kensington.
Victoria Road 
Stanford Road 
Queen’s Gate Mews
Another Kensington hotspot is up closer to High Street Kensington on Abingdon Road. On (or very close to) the same road, you can find all of these sneeze worthy displays.
Chelsea is another area where the wisteria is THRIVING. I only made it to a few of the streets in Chelsea that have multiple houses, but I’ve seen a lot more down side streets while on the bus or walking somewhere. Definitely just wander around the whole area and you will not be disappointed. I started at Cheyne Walk and made my way up through Chelsea toward South Kensington.
From Cheyne Walk I was on my way to Park Walk when I made an accidental wrong turn and ended up finding some houses on Lawrence Street.
Then I made my way to Park Walk.
One house on Park Walk even uses their wisteria for a good cause.
Next up was Elm Place.
Then Ensor Mews.
And finally, Sumner Place.
I went to Battersea for one reason, Saint Mary’s Church and its wisteria lined wall, and it did not disappoint.
It also has this gate…
…And an old cemetery…
I also found this house somewhere between the church and Albert Bridge.
The church alone was worth the trip to Battersea.
Chiswick is home to the Fuller’s Brewery which happens to have one of the oldest wisteria vines in London, so naturally I had to go see that. Due to a massive bus diversion, I ended up going way past the brewery and finally got off the bus at Barnes Bridge Station, and instead of waiting 30 minutes for another bus, I decided to just walk the Thames Path back to the brewery, and on that walk I found a few good displays.
From Fuller’s I walked along the Thames Path back toward Hammersmith and found quite a few houses along the way.
There’s obviously so many more houses and gardens with wisteria in London, I may add on to this if I find more in the next few days, but I think I covered some good ground and finally found the houses I see posted so often and was dying to see. Other places I have heard include one house on Dorset Street in Marylebone, Peckham Rye Park, and the pergola on the hill in Hampstead, as well as neighborhoods in Hampstead. Hopefully I can make it to see those before the bloom ends, but if not, maybe next year!
These locations aren’t really in order, but you can hit a lot of them in the same day if you plan it out right. Here’s some of the routes I took (with some bus and tube rides in between).
Happy wisteria hunting!
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