Let's See Your ARBORS and TRELLISES! Part 3

nice boxes Holly

Holly, your wall collage of plants is beautiful!

I would enjoy having a trellis tunnel as well, but if I tried to do one as long as that one posted above, I think the neighbors would complain that I'm planting in their yard! ;-)

Very nice, Holly Ann.

Flea markets carry reproductions that are wonderful. I get a lot on Cape Cod every June.

This piece is about 2.5' long and solid cast iron. Cost was $9.00 - not bad at all.

What fussy neighbors, Evey!

cocoalulu is a great gal, talented and w/ a great sense of style. She hasn't posted much lately, I miss her contributions.

Arlene, a local nursery used an iron headboard and made it into a green bean trellis in a raised veggie bed. The owner told me they tacked rebar at the bottom of the headboard to make it taller. They sank it in the dirt and voila. I have a pic of it somewhere, no telling when I'll be able to find it. If/when I redo veggie beds, I will definitely use that idea. Another item they used was pairing two of the metal rose trellises together. again, tacked some rebar for height. When the climber whatever is not growing, you have a real artistic element in the veggie garden.

Gee, and there's a junk store with two cast iron beds just about 5 miles away...

Pirl you are in the heart of goodfinds
I love the CapeCod find

This piece was $6.00.

awwww

We went to NOLA pre Katrina and our fiends brought back a couple of small pieces of Wrought Iron. Ric and I walked the Garden District snapping pics of the decorative work. Just beautiful.
Ric, has been dragging things home from other peoples trash piles for years and we get some very usable things that way. Metal beds especially daybeds are pretty easy to scoop up and the metal angle iron that is in bed frames comes in very hand for many projects.

Yes, we have lots of that angle iron as well.

Love that structure of cocoalulu's. It's similar to what we would like to do on one of our paths here, called an 'allee.' Long term dream. :-) We've thought of doing it with native grapes here.

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It's such a nice cool look.

Thank you KasperC, I just could not remember the proper name for that. We have room to put one just not sure how I will fit it into my future garden plans. I was thinking you could make a nice shaded arbor with a bench using the same materials. By attaching the panels longer down the back and shorter in the front. Spray painting the metal would give it a more finished look.

We want to keep the sides open for air movement and to avoid cutting the garden in half, so we're planning on using the grapevines and just weaving them together (pleaching?) instead of using the wire sides. DH thinks he will use cemented-in posts with rebar for the structure. He's the eng-i-neer, so I'll leave that to him. ^_^
It means pulling out some substantial plants, but things have changed since we started!

...and if you're like the rest of us, you'll be pulling up established plants as long as you garden..and things will constantly be changing !

Has anyone ever seen the old movie "The Bad Seed" with Patty McCormack ? (circa 1962...) She makes numerous references throughout the movie about their "Scuppernong Arbor" (a type of grape, I think...)

She was this diabolical child killer with blonde braids and as vicious as a viper. She thought she had everyone fooled, but could worm her way out of everything with her ingratiating manner.

Without spoiling the movie, there's one scene where her mother confronts her about her involvement in a childs drowning at a picnic she had been to. She attempts to change the subject and says, "Mother...may I go sit under the Scuppernong Arbor? It's so nice and shady there...and you can see me from the window..."...yada yada yada...(this kid had no conscience and would plot her evil deeds while sitting under the Scuppernong Arbor...all the while pretending to be this angelic little thing...

NOT !!!

Anyway, in the film they show the arbor and it looks just like what is being discussed here...

Jasper - - -you couldnt possibly be old enough to remember that movie.

It actually came out in 1956. Patty McCormack was close to my age, and we both had left our childhood far behind us by 1962.

She was impressive in that role, wasn't she? To this day, when she guest stars on TV shows like "The Sopranos" or "Grey's Anatomy," reviewers refer to her as Rhoda from "The Bad Seed."

Thanks Zuzu I had forgotten her name.
My childhood was also left behind in 1964 except I was nearly 30.
Its good to be free.

When I'm in the garden I think my childhood returns. Or is that my second childhood? Last week I kept going under the sprinkler, due to the heat, and it's really hard not to smile after getting drenching wet.

Now if I just had a Scuppernong Arbor to plot some evil deeds...but I do well enough on the computer.

Carefully Pirl

OK, now I'm going to have to find some way to get that image out of my head!! I hated that little brat!

I never liked girls who didnt "play fair"

I didn't realize that movie was that old. I first saw it in 1962 when I was in the second grade. I remember my older sisters using the line "What would you give me for a basket of kisses ? " then they told me that's where the line came from. That film has a sort of cult following these dyas.

I always thought that Jay North, who played Dennis the Menace, could have been Patty McCormack's brother.

I never put that together but your right.
Both had those sharp tight features.

and that platinum hair.

Watch out for that platinum hair!

not many around in those days.

We called them "towheads" - anybody know where that came from? My brother was one - the only blonde in the family.

OK, had to go look it up:

My kids were both tow-haired. They both stayed that way until about the 5th grade or so, when the blonde started to darken a bit.

I was a towhead.I always thought I was adopted because my brother and sister had brown hair

and one of my daughters
Yes she is a gardener

Here are Kate and Brad before their first plane ride. Kate's in 5th grade and her hair is just beginning to get a bit darker. Brad's in 3rd grade and still bright blonde... and missing a few front teeth!

this is the front gate to the back yard in Feb. Has wiesteria growinfg on it . Has not bloomed yet though.

thjis is the trellis in May that is on the gargage. Made of cedar

This is the same trellis in July in bloom was full this year

This is the latest backyard project that will be planted with Hydranga vine. Have stained it and ready to put on a shade covering but no pic yet.

this is a trellis I am trying to train an esplaia apple tree on. (not sure on spelling)

Nice work. Do you have the hydrangea already? They take a very long time to get growing.

yes i do and planted thats why I am putting a shade stucture up till the vine gets going. Its been 5 yrs for the wiesteria and they say it may take up to 20yrs to bloom