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!
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.
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
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
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
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.
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".
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
--John Muir
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.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
--John Muir