Let's See Your ARBORS and TRELLISES! Part 2

I do keep the coleus going all winter long and keep taking cuttings. I hope to do fewer cuttings this summer and fall and just concentrate on my most favorite ones. Mine range from light to dark, a few that trail and then the host of new ones we just bought on Wednesday. It never ends.

sound pretty cool pirl. I did not even know there were trailing ones. They are such an addition to the garden. You always have pretty color and do not even have to worry about when the flowers die. I did hear from somewhere you are supposed to cut off the flowers when they do bloom. Is that true? something about it keeps the leaves more beautiful.

It's funny, I love where we live and that we can leave a lot of things outside in winter, but I would love to have Clematis like that. We are limited because of the heat here. Yes, we can grow Bougainvillea, but I did have one die from an Easter freeze one year - so you never know. Nothing is ever simple, is it? :-)

BTW, my family is originally from the Hamburg, Philly, Allentown areas.

Great photos, Kastrol. Such a pretty and well-tended garden.

Ginger, I grow many of my Clematis vines in containers without any problems. They do have to be large containers, however -- bigger than the 5-gallon size.

What ever happened to "Missing Rosie"
I will have pix of new garden sculpture soon.
I havnt seen her posting in months.
Went to a studio sale and hoped to find an arbor but all there were free standing pyramids with a "thingie" on top.
If my clems from the co-op ever develope I'll need a arbor for them.

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At least you have your clematis from the co-op, Jo Ann. Mine have not yet arrived but, then, I've only been waiting since December.

Any blooming annuals should be deadheaded, kastrol, to prevent seed formation. The flowers on coleus are underwhelming anyhow so it's not a problem pinching them to keep them full.

Here are the new coleus and a few other newcomers.

One of my three archways. This one leads into the shade garden. BEV

Love the one on the middle right Pirl. The light one with a little orange in it. Would look lovely mixed in a shade garden with a autumn fern.What is the name? Yeah...I deadhead my annuals and some of my perennial, but I had remembered hearing that about coleus. I let a coleus go one year and it got pretty purple spiked floweres....but it started to compromise the leaf growth and some of the leaves got raggy looking so I clipped the flowers off.

KaperC....Isn't that the way. You would like to grow what I grow, I would like to grow what you can grow. It is just human nature to want what you can't have. (or can't grow) That is one of the reasons I like this site, you get to see everyone elses flowers and enjoy then as well.

Thanks Zuzu! This is a great thread. I enjoyed looking at everyones arbors and trellis! So may different kinds and different vines to grow on them. Gave me some new ideas.....When you start running out of garden space then you just start going vertical.

Sedona. I've had it before but this one is beautiful compared to the one I had.

Thanks Pirl. She is pretty! Do you find they are kind of like finger prints.... one is never the same?

They should be identical but sometimes I do notice changes and that might be due to the amount of sun or shade they get.

pirl, what is the blue flower tucked w/ the coleus you posted this morning. Coleus Sedona very popular in my area, to the point I can actually call it by name, lol

Hope this works
New ArtsyFartsy art for my garden
Its not happenen

switched graphics soft ware I had hopped for a colage but I'll have to send 5 the old way
I call this a water spot its a shallow bowl on a post

.this is a flat tile that will stand when SIL makes one

.a bird form that hangs on a tree

.another flat tile fern pattern

.This is the hanging sculpture"tree ear ring"

Kastrol..thats what I wanted to do ....

Sadly that only looks like good ground. It's the edge of the driveway pretty solid packed rock. I might go out to the sides a bit and down into the beds.

Ginger

Zuzu - we could really use a Part 3 for this thread. Thanks.

I was just going to ask the same thing....new thread please. :-)

Wow, you're right. This has been a popular thread. Let's all remember that it was JasperDale's good idea.

Part 3:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/998886/

...but the truth be told, it was Zuzu's idea for this thread initially !

That's right, JD. I twisted your arm.

ge1836..................I like your arts and crafts you have added into the hardscape. Beats the dickens out of a concrete frog. LOL

Thanks Docgipe.
I love art and objects with plant elements in the sculpture is just a bonus.
It is possible to over do it though so I moved a piece to another location and it made a difference.
Now to find things for the rest of the gardens. I would like a trellis but havnt seen just the right one. I'm fussy as if nobody hadnt noticed.

Fussy ? Aren't we all ? LOL

Surely you jest, JD!

I want to plant Rhubarb in a container.
Anyone think it will work?

I've never tried it. You might want to ask the people on container gardening or fruit gardeners.

DD says its not a good idea. Roots might be too cold in winter. and there is no room in garage to store anything.

Could you plant it at the edge of the vegetable garden?

I have a spot in mund.
It means removing a huge noid hosta .
This is it,we inherited it and no matter how I try it just doesnt work with the rest of the area.

Would you consider potting up the rhubarb until you can get someone to dig out the huge hosta in the fall (when you can remove the leaves so it will be easier) and then amend the soil and plant the rhubarb in that spot?

Thats the plan.
Willi is sending a plant from his started from seeds.

I'm hoping the next photo I take will have an arbor here! Crossing my fingers DH makes it this weekend!

I can see it now, it'll be gorgeous! What are your plans for plantings?

I can see it and its a perfect spot

Another great day

My Arbor and shed staining project is finished and supporting a nice growth.....some flowers in their second year and a cuke which was added a bit late in the plan. It is begining to show promise of literally hiding the neighbor behind my location of the arbor.