The Costco in Nashville (it's only about 8-10 hours drive for you, Fairy...lol.....).
Imagine it with roses.... I'd try Honeysuckle, but I don't want to completely obliterate it.
Cottage Garden Trellis designs
nannie, that sounds functional and nice....anyway of taking a photo to show us?
pagancat, I loooooove it too and am going to go see if I can find it at our Costco around here :) so you're planning on roses? which ones?
My husband and I had a nice visit to Longwood Gardens in PA yesterday with some MidAtlantic DGers. I took a few trellis/pergola photos. One of the pergolas came off the side of the house and they used cable wires coming down, which I thought was clever.
more from the front view; the last photo was the side
the side ~ plastic coated cables from the inside view
Pagan - that's a gorgeous arbor - I hope you get years of enjoyment from it!
I am a sucker for clematis-I want a bizillion of them-in fact-this may sound bad, but we had a sub wide garage sale and the people across the street had these 2 towers w/ fake flowers vining up them out for sale....I didn't get them, but neither did anyone else, so I am hoping I will see them out on trash day....does that sound bad?? Most people here throw stuff away that thye don't sell in the annual garage sale!!
Yeah, I'm thinking roses - but Passionflower is an option, too, as is just about any vine, really - I haven't completely explored my options. And with that other thread on Morning Glories, just staring me in the face >grin< .... it could be about anything! I *do* have a couple of perennial sweet peas that I need to plant, so you can likely count those in.
.... then there are those Clematis.... .. ... hmmm....
ooo-do them all!!LOL Then you won't even be able to see it-just leaves and flowers!!;)
Wind, sorry, but no. We did that on a house in Ocala, FL. and we've been long gone from there since 1998
You just have to buy screws that are the length of the PVC pipe + plus width of the trellis wood + plus amount screwed in the wall to anchor it.
hi nannie, that is ok when I explained how you described it my husband knew what you meant and how to do it :)
I have some more photos from our Longwood Gardens trip with some close ups of a really nice pergola, which I'll post just for those of us looking for ideas on how to build things for our climbers
this was my favorite pergola
looking down
another angle
the trim looks like simple enough cuts..I bet we can do this :)
thin strips of wood went lengthwise across the top, nothing fancy
just an expanded view
this how they ended it on one side to divide the garden areas
oops I meant to say it was sort of an 'end cap' not actually attached to the pergola, there was a gap between the pergola and this part. Now that I think of it, I think this part had a peaked roof design with a bench under it, which I didn't get a full photo of.
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Really, the pergola structure is probably a lot like many others we've seen - I think what really makes it is it's placement (away from any buildings) and all the glorious plants, don't you? I can see why it's your favorite.
yes, I guess the pergola is fairly common ~ your typical pergola. You're right theirs was esp. nice because of the free-standing feature and all the gorgeous plantings.
I'm not the handy one in our family when it comes to building things, but I'm hoping my mother or husband will build us one :) also free-standing, but close to the house and much shorter in length.
There were also some supports for climbers in the veggie garden at Longwood. These branches were in the typical t-pee shape, but had string wrapped around them, making it easier for the plants to climb. I've made bamboo t-pees before but never with the string, so I'm going to try that this year.
oops edited to say branches not bamboo in the photo, I usually use bamboo here at home!
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Funny - they're so simple, but they look so cool!
I've been looking for a picture I have from the LA Aboretum. It's of a pergola almost identical to that one, except the supports are concrete cast in the shape of twisting vines (now that I think about it, maybe it *was* twisting vines? Hmm - memory fails). Think it's on another computer, grr.
I wonder what kind of branches those are? I mean from what kind of trees. They are perfect, aren't they? We usually do the 'all in one row' teepees. Sheese...my dad was having a brain fade and told me to plant my beans 40 inches apart, (now he says he was thinking room to get the tiller in there) and I was having a brain fade, and DID WHAT HE SAID! we're both goobers. that kind of teepee would work for me this year =)
Pagan, don't forget the Jasmines. I'm a huge fan of Moonflowers too. They only bloom at night, but thats when most of us enjoy our yards and gardens. It's very fragrant. I've helped build two Pergolas (haha us hillbillies call em' arbors) and it's been a joy to watch them.
Nannie, I just never know what to call them - arbors, pergolas, trellises, bower, summerhouse ....
I had to laugh. I was told by a friend (joking) that you can't use the words hillbilly or redneck anymore - it's "Appalachian American".
HA HA.so on here, we'd be the AA ? LOL
You betcha!
you both are too funny!
here is another set up: This was how Longwood had their berry plants set up. I keep meaning to try this with our raspberry bushes. We have a long row of them and they do arch out and a cable to hold them in place would look nice plus would serve as a guide to end the patch. What I do now is I mow over the new growth that pops up to keep it in check, but the patch has gotten wider I've noticed by about 2 feet or so than what I originally allocated for them!
I think this was their blackberries. We only have one blackberry bush at our house. My neighbor puts me to shame she is so good about utilizing all her berries in jams. She just used up all her raspberries from last years harvest that were frozen to make room for this seasons upcoming harvest. I've never been organized enough to pick that much. The birds usually eat alot of ours and once I even saw our German Shepard nibble a few raspberries. It would have been a cute photo :)
We had issues last year trying to make grape jam with our first 7lb grape harvest, it was pretty funny. It never gelled and we ended up with a sauce instead! I think we have a lifetime supply, we do enjoy it though on our frozen yogurt or ice cream.
Found it - it's not the LA Arb at all, it was the Huntington Gardens in LA (Reaalllllly Coooooolllll).
And it's concrete in tree form with live Wisteria vines. Shew.
...the trees in that photo are made from concrete? they look so real
speaking of vines, I just reordered Jasminum x stephanese for a large arbor. Has anyone had any luck with it? I had one plant and really liked it but the poor thing could never really get established. I moved it so many times to find the right spot, finally did, and a bunny ate it to the ground last fall and it didn't come back. I really want it so I'm trying again. I bought 2 plants, one for each side of the arbor.
The other thing on that arbor I have is clematis huldine. I think the two would look really nice together. Huldine has a pinkish mauve underside.
I LOVE that tree thing!!! That is awesome!!! I also like the teepee idea-thanks guys!!
Pagancat, that's crazy. What a concept!!
Pretty cool, huh? The entire garden is wonderful (it's not the Arboretum, it's the Huntington Botanical garden: http://www.huntington.org/ ) but that's the entrance to the Japanese garden. You wouldn't believe... *sigh*...
Looks like they have a Chinese Garden there now, too - guess I have a good reason to make it back there!
I did my trellis thing w/ the deer fencing this weekend-will have to take a pic-nothing special, but the cleamitis that will crawl up it will be the main focus anyway:)
I think that's a great idea - I was thinking of the same thing with cattle guard fencing - might still do it with a grape vine out in the vegetable garden. Did you put it in an arch?
Nope-we put it over the gutter edges and secured it w/ zip ties, then pinned it into the ground w/garden staples, then angled it so that the cleamtis would get more shade on their roots and sun on the top growth...
Gotcha - so climbing up the wall-type trellis.
Hi All, this is my first post here. I saw this on new threads and said..."I can do this!" I have posted this photo on two other forums. Our yard art arbor/trellis/entry gate at our cottage in N GA.
We started it last year after terrible weather that included a hurricane in the N. GA mountains (honest) and a tornado gifted us with lots of downed wood. We are still going to do a wattle-type sheep fence on the wire fenced side. Last summer we had cardinal vines up the entry trellis part and a yellow climbing rose up the arbor/trellis. We tied it all with wisteria vines gone rampant and thought it would last several years, but they were falling apart by Spring, so we retied everything with sisal twine.
Laurel
The gate just went up about two months ago and the bird houses just a few weeks ago. A black capped chickadee family moved right in! I grow all kinds of flowers...pansies and sweet William around the entry during Winter and the cardinal flowers, tall, old-fashioned zinnias and nicotiana langsdorfii (a green flowered tobacco) in summer. Sorry I have no photos of things in flower...I'm just learning about that.
Laurel
Hi, Laurel - that's awesome! I like your log plant stands!
Hi, Sue. Well, funny what folks notice, so I went back and looked. Yep, drove him nuts with "two more inches on the right. No, it's not even, one half inch on the left." He's so wonderful after all these years. People post that DH doesn't get it. Well, maybe my DH doesn't always get it, but that's all right with him. As long as I'm happy it's fine. I'm not just a princess, I am a queen.
I grow orchids too and have an indoor orchid house in Atlanta. He found some great hollow logs that are perfect for sinking six inch pots. The orchids look beautiful blooming out of the log holes in winter. That's the view I get from our open kitchen, across the family room and into the room where the orchids are growing. Helps me make it through the cold days (that's Atlanta vs. Miami, where I grew up). Everything is relative you know :).
Laurel (Smithie '07 mom and proud of it)
Very cute arbor! Welcome!
Everybody should have an indulgent and sweet husband.... it should be the law. Doncha think?
Gosh Pagancat. Even though I'm princess/queen it's all about choice here. We are a democracy. If it was a law...well, it would not work at all. I love that he loves...that I love, and so on.
Laurel