Beginner Gardening: August - how do you make the best use of your garden space?, 0 by BlissfulGarden

BlissfulGarden wrote:
Jo Ann, I do the same thing with the alternative uses. The arbors over the entrance gate and the church pew in the Secret Garden above are actually the corner pieces and cross ties of a 10x10 stand alone gazebo that was marked down ridiculously low at Wal-Mart two seasons ago. Rebar stabilizes the one over the pew and black aluminum fence posts stabilize the one at the entrance gate. Now that the climbing roses over the pew have grown much larger, we're going to add the two remaining cross pieces this year from the outer edges of the arbor over the pew to the brick on either side of the kitchen window, so the view will be surrounded by roses. I'm also planning to hang the mosquito netting that came with the original gazebo around our covered patio area. I've been trying to think of a way to make that look attactive and now that I saw that pic of the grape vine arbor surrounding a front porch on another thread, I think I've found just the "extra" I was hoping for. Gotta play around with that after we finish building the front garden!

Here's another recycled piece... a neighbor had thrown out this chimenea and hubby brought it home. I was shocked, as he used to tease me for my trash to treasure efforts. Now he's into the spirit of them! I turned this one into another sunken fountain. The water feeds into the back, spills out of the mouth of the fish, and exits to a basin hidden under the rocks. This pic is from when we had just planted the Confederate jasmine and crassifolia.

Pirl, your trellis is from the same line as Zuzu's arbor. Wouldn't that be funny if everybody here had the same one?!

This message was edited Aug 5, 2009 7:54 AM