Let's See Your ARBORS and TRELLISES! Part 3

I have resisted using arbor/trellis to hide the ugly electrical stuff b/c I was told it wasn't allowed and that crews would destroy whatever vine/rose/etc if they needed to work there and did not have to ask for permission. Does anybody know if this is really a fact?

TXPuddy, I'm not a vine lover but can appreciate your pretties.

I just wrote to thank TPP and hope he/she will comment on that issue, vossner.

From my experience, meter readers, cable people, phone co. workers, etc. etc. will DESTROY anything and everything in their path to get to whatever it is they need to work on or inspect. They're like bulls in a china shop...and they don't CARE what damage they do.

Here, you have to keep a 3 foot access clearance area for servicing and reading of electric and gas meters. They only go crazy on you if it's a pain for them to access the meter, so not everyone follows the 3 foot rule to a Tee.

my gas meter is between the ligularia and columbine
it's fully visable all winter but disapears(m but not completely)
as the plants grow.
We have a clearance ordinance here ,three feet,as is vossners

Here is yesterdays collage

The top left shows a drastic change from the one of that area I saw back in spring! Great job, Jo Ann.

Thanx Pirl your my best supporter.
A GF keeps exclaiming and whining about how her gardens just arent doing as well. I know she is baiting me for a dollar amount that I have spent on plants in the past 2 years.
I just tell her she could have gone on a world tour for what is in the garden.
Mind, she seldome cultivates, weeds, fertilizes,uses compost or spends anything on pesticides.

That's a lovely collage, JoAnn. The time and effort you've put into your garden certainly show.

Some people love to see pretty gardens but just don't have the ability to create them. They take bits and pieces of pictures and try and put them together. Sometimes that can work but it's the owners who generally pick the wrong plants for the wrong places that make such gardens horrors.

Its all I have to do so for an" A " obcessive type personality ,finding gardening saves my sanity.
The wintes are terrible but I will take the time to design my coleus containers and ,take cuttings from plants in the house.
I bought a house w/ my children. 2 years ago.Moved from a house I worked at to keep it from disolving,when the kids went to work, I stood on the deck,in a new place and wondered "What am I going to do for the next 15 years" I found gardening was just the ticket as I am not a volunteer type and am much older than the women in the new neighborhood.

Gardening can be twelve months a year when we have magazines, the internet and Dave's Garden.

The Internet has made a huge difference in my gardening. I don't get as stir crazy in the rainy season. I just happily stay inside and look at gardens online.

Maybe it comes from looking at magazines for so many years before the internet came along but it really is nice to look at photos, get ideas, dream about how we can try it in our own gardens, that can use up hours on nasty days.

ohhhh yeahh

Do you have folders and folders full of pages cut out from those magazines? Not to mention huge stacks of magazines from which you haven't had time to cull the best pages?

Oh yes! One winter I even sorted through all the photos and put them in alpha order and then they went into clear vinyl sleeves...then came the internet and I've never gone back to the pictures. Magazines galore, garden plans filling many binders, cut out photos and articles clogging my storage space, books I've looked at a few times and then put to the side, stacks of orders to be filed and so much more. No worries here in this room about being OC about such things. Life is too short.

My best move on the internet is "rightclick" a photo and "save as" in a file in "My Pictures"
Files there are sorted out as to color and variety of plants.

Oh, yes. I have lots of those as well.

Love my pictures.
I also have a file for Pirls garden and save almost everything she posts

Aw, thanks.

I save DG pictures that inspire me and others that definitely don't inspire me but serve to warn me that it could happen to me if I don't take care of what I have. A photo of a beautiful plant, surrounded by foot tall weeds, can get me out weeding so fast! Clutter in the background of many photos is a constant reminder to leave the garden each day so there is no clutter.

Some of the dahlia photos are so beautiful that I put them on my want list immediately.

ge, The garden is looking good.
First thought when I saw the pic was "I'd hate to be the meter reader" LOL
There are some areas with meters where they just drive by the house and point a receiver towards the house and pick up a signal to get the reading.
We are going to pick up another 500 or so used brick this week. Some of you may remember my driveway project with the brick patio and large trellis for a good sized wisteria. It was put on hold due to Ric's hand injury earlier this summer. His hand is doing very well now. I don't expect us to start the trellis before next spring but this second load of brick will give us enough brick for the project.
Also there was talk in one of the threads (maybe garden art) about using bicycles as accent pieces in the garden. I had thought that would be the prefect trellis for my Goldflame Honeysuckle. I have been working on a new bed 4ft X 46ft that runs along side the Veggie garden. I will be moving the Honeysuckle into that bed and looking for the right old bike. I have an old pink racing bike stored in the barn that I may decide to use unless I find something I like better.

The remote idea is great.
They actually read quarterly here so its not too bad.

We have the remote for the water but they have to come to the house 6 times a year for the electric reading.

Someone just HAD to mention stacks of gardening magazines, didn't they ?
Every time I open one closet, there they are...and there they'll most likely remain...the thought of going through every one and cutting out pictures is daunting to say the least ! It's so much easier to look online anyway.
JoAnn: Your garden is stunning. I love your collages.
I have more pictures of pirl's garden than I do of my own ! LOL

...and to think I swore I'd never get a computer...

Same here with the magazines, JD. I have Gourmet magazines that date back to the 50's and 60's.

Can't believe I swore the same thing! Never a computer, not for me. Best laid plans...

It was frustrating learning to computer at 55 but I did it.Still need DD for new stuff and havnt learned how to use the wireless system in the house.

My dad was well into his 70s when we got him a computer. He never did get along too well with it, but he tried and did manage to use it for a while. Those poor Gateway support techs earned their money. :-)

I'm in my 70's and I cant imagine learning anything so complicated.
My knowlege lets me do just a few things,but its worth the frustration when I do connect.

My grandma is in her late 80's and we finally got her on Facebook so she can stay updated with the younger part of the family.

For Christmas we are all chipping in to get her a new computer because the one she has is very old. (You guys can keep a secret right?? No spilling the beans.)

She lives in the middle of the desert so we have to talk her into a better provider plan.

Ginger

good luck

Good for you, Ginger! Hope it all goes well and she enjoys her new toy.

If you check out those smaller laptops that are now in the market selling for $399 or so, make sure she can read the screen. My mother has a "big ole" 14-inch laptop and still has problems looking at stuff now and then.

My daughter bought one for me on E-bay. A reconditioned DELL.$230.00
Ido have a problem with the keyboard and sometimes hit the caps button.I am a 2 finger typer.

So is my grandson (a two fingered typist) but he's only three so we'll excuse him. He still does better than my husband with the computer. He knows how to log in and get to his favorite game sites.

My gawd Pirl
Are you up at this hour?

Rocking, twirling and rolling with sciatica. Should make a country song about it!

This is not MY arbor. It is the one at Chateau De Villandry, France

So nice I thought I would share..

Taken Tuesday.

Ginger

So beautiful. Almost looks like a painting.

That is gorgeous!

You must have had a nice trip if that is a sample. :-)

It has been amazing... The gardens at Villandry are world famous.
Tomorrow I leave France and go to Ireland for 10 days.

I will be leaving fabulous weather for freezing rainy Ireland but..... it will still be Ireland!

Ginger