Comments on: GBDW – Trellises and Screens Wrap-Up

By: Lois J. de Vries

Lois J. de Vries — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:35:07 +0000

Hi Nan,
I thought your readers might be interested in a follow-up about our propane tank. New hardscape and plantings will have to wait ’til spring, but we moved the tank in mid-October.

Thanks for the update, Lois, and congratulations!
-Nan

By: Heirloom Gardener

Heirloom Gardener — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:30:18 +0000

Nan,

I’m sorry that I’m so late. Here’s a post in response to your wrap-up about the clematis I grow on the lattice screens below my deck.

http://heirloomgardener.blogspot.com/2008/11/lattice-screen-to-hide-my-gardening.html

-Heirloom Gardener

Thanks so much, HG, from me and from everyone who visits these archived posts to get design inspiration. It’s never too late to add links!
-Nan

By: Pam/Digging

Pam/Digging — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:49:18 +0000

Nan, I just posted some follow-up pics of my trellis screen, if you care to add that link to my contribution. Thanks! Thanks for the update, Pam. I sure will add it when I update the main post. -Nan

By: VP

VP — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:02:48 +0000

Hi – love the articles thus far!

Sorry it’s a couple of days late, but we’ve had family staying with us. Here’s my effort for this month:

http://vegplotting.blogspot.com/2008/09/gbdw-trellises-and-screens.html

I probably won’t be contributing this month – I only have a bird bath in the garden, plus a temporary stream in very wet winters! However, I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone else comes up with.

I appreciate you taking the time to contribute to this topic, VP; thanks! With all of the responses so far on water in the garden, I think you and I will have a lot to read in September.
-Nan

By: Frances

Frances — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:34:29 +0000

I am going to check out all of these posts to see if maybe next time this topic comes up I will be able to join in. Too many travels this month for me, but I love reading and looking at the photos these creative bloggers have come up with.

It *is* fun to see the different takes on the topic, isn’t it? And who knows what future projects they may inspire!
-Nan

By: our friend Ben

our friend Ben — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:56:16 +0000

I think trellises and screens are two of the trickiest but most useful resources available to gardeners. (This is true indoors, too, where the option is often overlooked.) For temporary screening, adding interest to a blank wall, creating garden rooms, adding the illusion of privacy to a deck or patio, or giving direction to a garden area, screens and trellises can’t be beat. As for clematis, when I first bought Hawk’s haven, there was a large sweet autumn clematis growing over what I at first took for an upright set of bedsprings against the back of the house. I eventually realized that it was simply a homemade wire trellis that somehow resembled bedsprings, but the clematis loved it. I added a Clematis montana ‘Rubra’ for spring bloom, and while exquisite clematis cultivars on more ornate trellises died out, my “bedspring” clematis keep going strong!

Hey, I remember that trellis. Could have sworn it really was a set of bedsprings! Well, as long as the plants are happy, anything is fair game.
-Nan

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:33:34 +0000

This is an excellent resource! Thank you for including my how-to article in the list.

Looking at the other links in this post is inspiring! Safe to say that if you need support for your plants you are limited only by your imagination, and perhaps your budget. In fact, an idea is germinating in the back of my head for yet another trellis as I write this…

Great stuff!

Thanks for your comment, Brian, and for your participation this month! Good luck with your new project.
-Nan