Lovely Pergola coverage..

Went out for a great lunch today and saw this fabulous pergola coverage. I'm guessing it is a mix of Wisteria and grape vines.

I'd love to replicate this on a pergola I built last year but don't really want to have to wait 5 years!

Any suggestions what to plant???

Yep, that's hop, not grape and that's the one you don't need to wait for, skipping the wait, skip the wisteria.  Not long though if you get a cutting, just 2-3 years, whilst it establishes, if fooled with a seedling, that's about a decade to flowers.

If you buy plants now, yes,  will get mileage of growth, joking, but nearly.

The wisteria will do fine in a large container/planting box until you move, so will a load of stuff.

Also can move all of them out of ground if and when you need to.

whilst you are waiting for wisteria etc to grow (and it is worth the wait for wisteria) try some annual morning glory. (convulvulus) dead easy to germinate and grow. Just a few will grow and cover everything within sight  in a flash and you will get masses of new flowers every day.You can get them in all sort sof colours now and you may just be in time to sow a few. I did some very late a couple of years ago and they flowered through till November

evergreen Clemitis are nice too and don't take as long to cover

My wisteria is the saddest thing you laid eyes on.  It must have been a seedling--been in the ground 6 or 7 years now.  Should I be putting some heavy duty fertilizer on it or something?

Unless your soil is very poor, no. It is pea family, happily gets by, over fertilising can reduce flowering.

Seedlings start to flower from 8 years on, so you might be in for next year, don't expect much blossom though in the first 2 years of flowering, after that, you enjoy.

That's I suppose you are in a rather warm climate area. But I'm not certain of that, in cooler places needs to be planted south facing for a wealth of flowers.

Not in the sense of not having flower buds, which turn open much earlier than foliage, so if you get frozen foliage, it's more than likely you will get frozen flower buds as and when they come along. :shock:  

Easterly facing is worse in tis respect.

So the flowers come on before the foliage--so I may never have flowers at this rate?  I don't know whether to leave it or dig it out now.  
  Thanks for the advice!!

I'd leave it, it can happen on the off chance, but we all get spring frosts only sometimes losing blossom to it, besides, on a hot summer established plants quite often flower again in the fall.