Let's see your ARBORS and TRELLISES !

Ahhh, rebar! I think DH has some of that laying around that he didn't use in the concrete patio. Free T2T in my own back yard!

Does anyone have suggestions on where I can find cheap, not necessarily ornate, trellis, obelisks, etc? Someone above mentioned some $20 catalog finds. That would be great. 'Course, after I see how much rebar DH has laying around, I may not need to buy anything! But an obelisk might be hard for me to make out of rebar.

Enjoying the thread, thanks for letting me lurk a bit! (Hmm, as if you have a choice!)

Tonya

Here's the Obelisk Jack made for me 14 years ago. It's not for sale but I doubt it's an easy rebar job.

In looks better in June.

Sue - Autumn Sunset does look wonderful with the rebar. It's a color echo and perfect placement.

Very pretty obelisk pirl. I'm sure it was not an easy rebar job! Maybe some others will have some suggetions for cheap retail obelisks, etc.

I have two arbors but no pictures of either. This is the best I can do!

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I ordered Color Echo from the library, they'll contact me when it's in. I have SO many gardening books I figured I best just check them out and save my mula for plants.

I finally found the picture I was looking for, I really need to organize my photos better! I love blues and purples with yellows (and apricot/oranges) so not shown here, at the base I had planted a 6-pack of the common Mealycup Sage

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Still beautiful, Louise.

Lovely, Sue. There's something so nice between the contrast of flowers and steel or wood.

Just beautiful

You'll love the book Sue. Is that Autumn Sunset in the trellis pic. What a pretty surrounding you have created.

Thanks Louise, it's always changing as I add and subtract things but it's my little therapy garden. Yes, all my images above are Autumn Sunset

Here's a small portion of a trellis my husband built for me in 2005, and it's about 9' X12', three sections. It's covered with clematis and
hydrangeas. So it's hard to see, and I can't find any pictures of it before it was covered. We have 9 clematis on it.

The only other trellis I have are the Martha Stewart ones I purchased for the main garden. I have quite a few of them scattered through the garden.

Thats beautiful Polly
Now I wish I had ordered more clems. I'm tapped out for09

But you guys have inspired me to get more. Our property is so flat, it really needs some vertical. I grow clematis into trees and shrubs, but some more arbors or trellises would really help.

All your gardens are lovely. JD's so nice and neat, but still so beautiful, not all formal planned looking, Zuzu's is just voluptuous. Sue's is gorgeous, lots of really nice features. And Pirl's, well I've been in envy of hers since I saw the first pictures.

Think Wayside Gardens JoAnn. Not the catalogue one, the Rochester one. Tons of clematis. You might be tapped out now, but go there for a visit in May, and you'll come home with a few.

Pirl, how old was that clematis on the copper trellis? lovely. none of my clematis are so full looking, boohoo

Thanks, Polly. How we do sacrifice to keep our guys busy with projects!

It's all that compost juice, vossner. None of my other clematis look like that despite the feeding - rats! Every clematis gets half a bag of manure every spring after I lay down some 5-10-5 and Epsom Salts but still they don't perform like that one at the compost.

I love the look of the Monet arches but I doubt it will happen. They look best, to my eyes, as a long tunnel and covered with roses. Maybe in my next life.

Zuzu - please show us some photos that show the stained glass pieces - I love how you did that.

Louise - did that morning glory go bonkers as they usually do? That's my only fear with them.

Wayside here is an easy romp.
I'll check it out.

I manage to get there about three times a year.

vossner - to answer your question, there are two Jackmanii there and they're both about 15 years old. They get cut back almost to the ground every February.

I wish I could see the ground in February. We can't even get to the trellis until April. Sometimes the end of March.

ok, so I have 10yrs to go, lol. My! you are a fancy ladee. decorating the compost pile w/ clematis? I dare not show you my compost heap.

seriously, that really is an excellent example of how suburbanites and city dwellers who are hassled by their HO assn, can have a compost pile that doesn't suggest "trashy folk live here". It would take a loooong time for the HOA police to find it. The compost juice effect is dramatic. I should copy this idea.

Polly - many times we have snow cover so don't think I'll be out there in the snow doing the pruning. Two years ago I decided to try cutting the Jackmaniis back in Nov. - Dec. just to see how they'd do and they were just as lush as ever so that's what I've been doing unless bad weather comes in too soon like last year when only one got done.

Vossner - we would not have bought a home with an HOA and the very few attempts to start one on our little peninsula have met with instant defeat. We did have one guest, on the 2005 garden tour, who insisted he could smell the manure in the compost. How odd since we don't put manure in it! I was glad to see him leave as he wouldn't let up on it.

The same people who go green with everything are often the ones who loathe compost piles. We have six of them and if people don't like them they can go go other gardens.

pirl: I love your "snow grafitti " !

I would do a compost pile if I had room for one, but every inch is precious here.

I'm getting depressed every time I see Polly's gardens...then I look at my postage stamp plot...

My clematis don't even register on the low end of you East Coast people's scale...but getting them to bloom as pitifully as they do here is a "victory" for me. LOL

We didn't have the room for them in our prior homes either, JD. They do take up space!

I'm so sick of "Global Warming"!

I can't even imagine 63 acres or the length of Polly's driveway!!!

There are and always will be plants that do better in some areas than others and that's why sharing our photos is such fun.

JD - I found some nice arbors from vacation photos.

I loved this one but wished that building wasn't there.

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Look at this frumpy couple!

Yes, my driveway is horrendously long in the winter. Much shorter in the summer. Well, not really but it seems it.

Your gardens are gorgeous Mike, don't sell yourself short. And be glad you don't have to weed mine. Living next to many open fields results in a lot of nasty weeds.

What a lovely couple! They look very happy together. I wonder who they could be, LOL.

I love that second arbor too, but not the building. But the third one is what gets me. It's a beautiful arbor that looks like it would be going into a lush garden. And then the garden behind the fence looks like there's nothing there. Maybe the arbor should have been on the other side of the fence. But they are all beautiful arbors.

I think I've seen that couple before!

Somewhere in New York.

I love Zuzu's fur and fauna arbors.

this trellis was made of natural wild grape vines i hauled in from the ravines and woods on our farm. You can see the large wood vines where the clematis hasn't covered it yet.

Wow! That's impressive. Which clematis is it and do you have a photo of it in bloom? I'm sure we all want to know how old it is as well.

Tonya, I bought my pillars from the Lillian Vernon catalog, but I don't think they carry them anymore.

Re: the "frumpy couple"...his mother looks like she's really enjoying her little rest !


That grape vine arbor is way cool. GOOD JOB !

You are so mean, JD!

I like that grapevine arbor too.

Pirl, the stained glass accents are on corner brackets inside the arbors. Here's a closeup of one of them.

The inside corners of another arbor have stained glass butterflies.

This piece is attached to a trellis.