Let's See Your ARBORS and TRELLISES! Part 2

ge1836, lol! My thoughts exactly...

NEIGHBORS INCHED INTO MY PATIO VIEW......BOTH WAYS

ANSWER>>>>>>>PLACE A LARGE ARBOR AND COVER IT WITH CLEMATIS.

We did the above and it is starting to prove what properly placed eye candy can do to wipe out line of sight that may not be appreciated. The clematis should cover a third to half of it this year and do what we planned very nicely next year.

With a little help we got this dandy built with green rough cut mill lumber for under seventy five bucks.

Nice work, doc, and I like how you matched the angle at the top with the roofline.

great solution doc!

I went to Oriental Garden Supply and saw this 75 year old tree. 20-30 feet wide,

another view

Fantastic tree. There was a business in town that had a similar tree that branched out in two directions like that one. Not really sure what it was some type of evergreen. It had been there for years it didn't really look good as the planting around it was wrong. But the tree itself was wonderful. There was a business sign near the tree also. One day I was driving by and looked as always for that great tree and here they had cut it down. Cut off both branches and dozed the trunk out. Guess the new owners didn't like that it was encroaching on their sign. What idiots!

OMG how awful

latest pix of the shadegarden-new part

.I saw a tufted Titmouse at the bath, couldnt believe it. I'll have to keep it full

and the daylily garden w/sculpture is going great guns.

Finally some pix from our garden
DD's Black iris
Mauve Iris
Siberians
My "Enchanted One" Iris(yellow)
Campanula Sarastro

ge1836...........what a beautiful site. Really nice. Iris I love to look at but not care for. I have a couple but of no special showing or interest. A neighbor gave me three. I stuck them in and mulched the heck out of them ten years ago. All have put up with me and my wood mulch that is not suggested by any Iris grower I know. I never maintained them in any so called proper management. They just are....what can I say?

I'm not a TBI fanatic either. We inherited these gardens with the house and ALL the iris are purple.
I bought 4 from Shreiners all yellows and pinks and an orange just for relief from the boredom
The root borer got 3 so I'm all over with that stuff.
Hope I can keep the ones we have alive.
DD moved a few of her favorits and they are mauve an a pink one.

OK, this is a little "from the sublime to the ridiculous." DH has a stack of redwood slats piled up in the yard that I wanted him to get rid of. We planted two native honeysuckles recently and want to train this one upright, so I had the idea of a teepee! Works great, didn't cost anything, and the birds use it for a perching spot on the way to the feeder or fountain.

Neat!

Ingenious, Kathleen. I like it!

At least we're using up those slats! We put one around a mallow that is being eaten - surrounded it with bird netting. Unfortunately, it seems it wasn't a squirrel eating the plant, but perhaps grasshoppers? I like them, and they blend in with our 'natural' landscape.

You like the grasshoppers?

I think she means the mallow. lol

Actually, I meant the tepees! LOL

Hey I got it. LOL
I like the tepee, too. Very cute.

I thought she meant the grasshoppers also!

Well, I am a bit weird....but that's stretching it!! Hate those nasty things. Without thinking, I grabbed one with bare hands one day. Ouch!

See that! I never even knew they would hurt a person!

It's those saws on their legs, pirl, they are very sharp!

I have some questions about planting for my arbor.


DH build me a beautiful arbor. Now I have some clematis and honeysuckle to plant. The thing is the arbor is built on the porch so there really isn't ground close by to plant in. I am thinking that these guys will have to stay in containers.

How does that work in the long run?


Thanks, Ginger

This is my one arbor with roses blooming in May of this year.

Same arbor with view from the other side.

Picture perfect!

Movable trellis I use for my Bougainvillea.

Arbor seat last fall just after sweet Autumn was finishing.

Gorgeous, kastrol!

I have the exact same one in my sunroom! Mine holds pots of coleus.

Gorgeous photos and settings!

Another view

I made a homemade arbor out of copper pipe. Here it is with more of the sweet autumn growing on it last fall. It is becoming part of my secret garden.

Trellis for my Nellie Moser & Doctor Ruppel Clematis.

I started growing a Montana Clematis on the other side of the copper arbor this spring.

Pirl...
Thank you. I love that trellis too. I never have time to get to plant pots to put in the holders though. I just get too much on my plate.... I am trying to take time this year to do some pots....we will see how it goes.
I bet your coleus look really pretty. What colors do you like? Do they over winter for you in your sun room? Coleus are so pretty.....So many colors and patterns....

KaperC...
Thank you as well.....San Diego huh? Such a different growing zone then I am use to. You can grow Bougainvillea out side all year there can't you? I would love to live in a zone a little warmer. There are so many things like that you can grow there. Lantana is another that would grow all year there too, huh?
I love Lantana too, but here we can only grow as an annual and they never get big enough, you know?

beadmom/ginger.....
That is a great arbor.....There is so much you could do! Why can't you plant the clematis and honeysuckle in the front of the arbor legs to the side just a bit? There is ground there, it would be just alittle in front of the raised beds? I think that would look great. They would fill in soon. What kind of clematis were you planning on planting?