"Sheila" <sheila21uk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "> One of the prettiest things to do with arches is to use Wisteria or
> Laburnum
>> over them, or both. You could combine them side by side or alternate
>> them
>> so that one arch is Laburnum and the other Wisteria etc.
>> Depending on where you live, the evergreen winter flowering Clematis
>> armandii is a possibility and so is Clematis balearica.
>
>
> We are in Formby, Merseyside, quite sheltered, not lashed by sea
breezes!
> I will take note of those Clematis, and I have Laburnum in the garden
> already, really beautiful when in flower, and I have always wanted a
> Wisteria......
>
Just been out and taken some photos of the arch to show its construction.
Two arches with an arch width gap between them thus forming a tunnel, held
together with plastic covered steel tube meant for plant climbers :-) and
covered with chicken wire. Bit bare at the moment but the Clematis is
climbing well and others will follow.
http://www.myalbum.com/Album-SSSKOPTQ
Also the wigwam for the two coloured flower Runner Beans :-)
All taken against a cloudless sky :-) Bit different to those on a cruise
on
P&O's Ventura, chasing the 'sun' to the Canaries, Madeira and places there
and they have had cloud since leaving Southampton :-((
Mike
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