What sort of trellises, arbors, birdbaths, art do you have?

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Mar 19, 2005 10:07 pm

All the better for those of us viewing them!

Great clematis! I am hoping mine take off this summer, seems these winters kill mine back horribly till about the 3rd summer. Hoping this year to see some a real show!

Love your yard!

Old earth dog · Post by **Old earth dog** » Mar 20, 2005 12:09 am

OK Char! All these great pics and no names.

That beautiful blue on the bottom, General Sikorski, The President, Ramona, ? Cummon now, we need names!

wild4flowers · Post by **wild4flowers** » Mar 20, 2005 7:53 am

Sorry, I have no names. As fanatical as I am about hosta names, and daylily names, I didn't do the same with clematis. CHAR

Midnight Reiter Too · Post by **Midnight Reiter Too** » Mar 20, 2005 5:41 pm

Char, cool pics. Is your house a three bedroom ranch like ours? Do you just have the siding or do you also have brick or stone on the front? We have only siding.

wild4flowers · Post by **wild4flowers** » Mar 20, 2005 7:18 pm

Ours is a 2 bedroom up and 3rd down (walkout), with the possibility of 2 more down and still a large family room down there also. We have a slider on the back that we recently put in that goes out onto the deck that we also put on. It is pretty plain and I'm trying to spiff it up (garage expansion with extention in front, new siding/roofing) and of course landscaping. CHAR

thy · Post by **thy** » Mar 20, 2005 11:05 pm

Jane
That arbot is just plain fantabolous

'Pia

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Mar 20, 2005 11:32 pm

Thanks Pia. We have fun coming up with ideas and following through with them one day. Hopefully this summer we'll get to the expansion of it so we'll have 2 benches and a walk in between to the back garden

thy · Post by **thy** » Mar 20, 2005 11:37 pm

Any plans of a summer in Denmark ????

Pia

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Mar 20, 2005 11:41 pm

Honey you pay the way

, and we're there!

It's not hard to do, just set your mind to it! Actually this change over from play structure to arbor was 3-4 years of reminding dh what I wanted and drawing it up before he took the time to figure out what it would take to build it

Midnight Reiter Too · Post by **Midnight Reiter Too** » Mar 21, 2005 1:40 am

wild4flowers wrote:Ours is a 2 bedroom up and 3rd down (walkout), with the possibility of 2 more down and still a large family room down there also. We have a slider on the back that we recently put in that goes out onto the deck that we also put on. It is pretty plain and I'm trying to spiff it up (garage expansion with extention in front, new siding/roofing) and of course landscaping. CHAR

I started looking at your photos again, and thought it might be a really big house. Our house isn't very big, and the basement has a window but no walkout. New siding, you say? Your house doesn't look very old, but your gardens are more established than mine. I'm so impatient about my yard.

wild4flowers · Post by **wild4flowers** » Mar 21, 2005 8:57 am

The house was built in 1954. CHAR

Midnight Reiter Too · Post by **Midnight Reiter Too** » Mar 21, 2005 9:08 pm

Char, I'm impressed that you are working hard on an older home. And thanks for the laugh per your yard art!

gardenkat · Post by **gardenkat** » Mar 24, 2005 10:52 am

I have a cement birdbath and one made of black metal with a glass amber bowl. I have three wooden trellises for my honeysuckle & clematis and a copper arbor for my silver lace vine. I also have an abstract limestone sculpture that I bought at an art exhibit. It's only about a foot high and looks nice in the hosta bed. In addition there are wooden & metal birdhouses, three gazing balls, and other assorted "stuff".

wild4flowers · Post by **wild4flowers** » Mar 24, 2005 4:10 pm

How aggressive is Silver Lace Vine. If I started it at the base of my husbands ham radio tower, just how high would it go? CHAR

gardenkat · Post by **gardenkat** » Mar 26, 2005 11:33 am

Char, well my silver lace vine is certainly VIGOROUS! It covered half the trellis the first year I planted it. I have to trim it a couple times every summer to keep it down to the size I want. (It would probably be growing up into the leaves of the tree by now if I didn't

) I've heard it can reach 20 feet in just a couple of years. Mine is in the shade so it might grow even faster if planted in sun.