Pretty Walkthrough to your garden...

Jace

Jace

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Do you have a Pergola...An arbor or passageway with a roof of tressiswork
on which climbing plants can be trained to grow.

To your garden or on your property?

(Don't have a picture..but I know some wonderful one..will help me out and post. 😉)
 

I don't have a pergola any more or an archway trellis.. but you can walk past some pretty things in my garden.. like this..

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the pergola at the back is now a workshop/shed
 
If still interested picked up all the wood for free to make this trellis over my front fence. There were huge pyracantha growing beside that green fence. But I like it now with them gone.

https://flic.kr/p/2mbJBSZ

https://flic.kr/p/2kVBq7o

https://flic.kr/p/2m4fVk3

Then there are two wire archways in the back garden. The first has Autumn Sunset on one side and as Iochroma on the other. The second had Graham Thomas and Sally Holmes roses growing on either side. But I replaced Graham Thomas with a Podranea vine.

https://flic.kr/p/CpVTM

https://flic.kr/p/2nR3arw

https://flic.kr/p/2n8Fgpv

https://flic.kr/p/2m4moA4n

out back there is a simple wooden trellis I put in last year to give the sprawling branches of Cantua buxifolia more room to spread out.

https://flic.kr/p/2nbNj5G

https://flic.kr/p/2n91XzH

In the side garden I have a smaller trellis a little like the one out front which I made fr that same reclaimed wood
had New Dawn rose on it for a while but it smothered everything below it in it’s spent petals so now I have a bougainvillea growing up it on both sides.

https://flic.kr/p/2nqN2k1

https://flic.kr/p/2nm8VaJ

https://flic.kr/p/2n4Aivt


Finally between the side garden and the garden out back there is a gate above which I’ve let various vines grow including Solandra maxima, a fine flowered abutilon and climbing roses. Currently it is mostly covered by a nearby Acacia cognata tree.

https://flic.kr/p/2kVnavk

https://flic.kr/p/2maWfr9
 
hollydolly said:
yes I do have a fair aize garden in British terms where so many are tiny postage stamp size... This was taken from the top of the garden looking towards the house
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Yes my wife let me drag her through 17 gardens in 17 days but everywhere we went we saw well loved gardens ranging from postage stamp to estate sized. One garden friend I knew there from Flickr helped me me plan it and then met us for lunch before visiting a private estate garden near Salisbury that was a favorite of his. In Devon we stayed for three nights at the bed and breakfast of another while exploring as far as Cornwall. But the highlight was visiting the garden of our friends Tony and Marie in Walsall. They sent me the first photo and half of the third.

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When they said they wanted to offer us some refreshment I suggested a real culpa in a real English garden. I didn’t realize that could mean a proper feast. Our hosts:

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I’ve long been frustrated in growing this foxtail Lily in my Mediterranean climate so I w as drawn shoot this one and Tony captured moment.

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looking back to the house from in the garden:

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so amazing what they were able to do while working full time jobs as a physician and hospital administrator and raising a family.
 
MarkD said:
That reminds me so much of the private estate garden in Salisbury we visited.
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I've never visted Salisbury but I remember making plans to a few years ago.. and they had the NOvichok poisonings at the time, with the nerve agents being added to all sorts of things.. they even suspected it was put on coffee cup rims in cafes''.. that put me off going there ..
 
It would have put off it too. But there were wonderful gardens open to the public to see on the way there and around Salisbury as well as the cathedral and Stone Henge.

I made a Flickr collection of photos and blurb about that trip here. We saw gardens III and IV on our way there. Garden VI is the one that reminds me of yours. And VII is the other one we saw near there.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/serialplantfetishist/collections/72157606443536955/

We sure had more energy for touristing then than we do now.
 

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