The arbor is something I picked up on a garden club trip to a garden center. Used and rusty I offered to take it off their hands for $300 dollars. I had it home in 2 days.
Ahhh that's better!! I really missed hearing your news and seeing your photographs. The arbour is a real garden feature - well done you for spotting its potential. I would love to take a tour of your gardens. Sadly I can't so it's lovely to see pictures. You and your husband have put a lot of work into them and it has really paid off.
Such a magnificent garden! I love the trellis--and for the price you paid it was a real bargain. In the fifth photo from the top there is a section of iron fencing (?) or trellis. Can you tell us what you have growing or plan to grow on it? I ask, because I have a section of cattle panel which isn't as decorative as your ironwork, but I've been thinking of planting something viney on it.
All spring I hit garage sales, looking for metal for the gardens. Got allot of little screwy ones that work great. The plant on the right is a variegated small grass that has been there for a few years. Not sure what us on left. I will ask him my when he comes home. So we put these on either side of out driveway entrance. See the horse head? I will put something behind the metal fence later on. Note in the back on the left. Another metal thing and one matching it up farther not in pic. Nothing is planted by them for I got broken instead. LOL It's always evolving......sometimes in slo.....mo......LOL
Good to see you here Barb. I'm not very good at FaceBook- was sad to see you'd hurt yourself How are you healing?
That is a beautiful trellis! It looks like seats are built-in also? Your gardens are beautiful and I love you fountain.
Hi Barb,..i missed your posts!,..lovely to see your garden and the additions since last visit,..its a huge garden and a beautiful one at that,..delighted you are posting,..don't overdo things with the injuries
Pics of flowers soon to come. Here is my favorite.... Here I am in Pa with blooms and bananas on my plant. I was thrilled to see this on the patio in front of the greenhouse. I have 3 plants that spend the winter in the greenhouse, then come out in spring.
I missed this posting as well, Ware. I really liked all the pics and the arch that you acquired. I have a thing for arches. The new one is attractive to look at...very chic.
I had 21 pictures to post today but after 8 hours of fooling around with the sizes these 6 are all I can get up. This is why you don't see me post much anymore....I can't waste the time anymore.. I am sure the total size was never correct but it is what it is.... please enjoy...
Next year I will create a butterfly house. That will be a screen room and have butterfly plants inside and outside. Some will be captured to lay eggs and reproduce then released at migration time. I have not seen one monarch here this year.
Good thinking, Barb. I have a patch of milkweed right in front of the house under the front window (oh boy is it fragrant and over 6' tall) and unfortunately I haven't seen one monarch on it, either... only a few swallowtails around (with lots of dill and fennel growing everywhere) and no morning cloaks as of yet. I planted a huge flower garden for cut flowers for the markets... no butterflys that I have noticed. I am trying to fill around the yard for attracting hummers to help control the dreaded drosophila fly... I am starting to feel like flowers aren't just pretty but absolutely necessary to balance/control the bad bugs. Barb, do you have problems with powdery mildew on your bee balm... it looks great, I can't grow it without it being covered in mildew every year... maybe I need to spray with a fungicide... Do you upload from an sd card or not? I use an Sd card from my camera. after I pop up the picture screen I right click on the image and a drop down pops up and I go to paint and resize it to 1025 pixels. that makes uploading images much easier...
