need specifics on fishing line trellis for brick wall
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Comments (0)hello everyone! I found a thread on this forum about how to make a fishing line trellis and it was great! I will be doing the same thing soon but I will use the trellis kit from Lee Valley Tools. The only thing is the pics in the original thread were all not showing. Does anyone have pics of their fishing line trellis against a brick wall?? I d like to see how it looks before I do it. I ll be growing morning glories on it! Please post if you have pics! Thanks S...See MoreQuestion about fishing line
Comments (9)Thank you so much for your compliments. I tried to figure out in my mind exactly what I wanted for 3 years, and am very happy with it. Aesthetics are really important to me, now more than ever. I have 3 kids who are just past the 18 yr mark and for years aesthetics could not be a priority. You'll go out of your mind trying to keep things looking lovely with 2 boys, 18 months apart. I was lucky just to keep things intact. LOL! We spent years renovating our house and finally could do the backyard, which was one big asphalt pad. You can't do something like that a little at a time. Now I spend a great deal of time out there and have discovered gardening with a passion. I am really enjoying this new stage of my life. I already have a big ugly pool alarm, the white box you can see in the photo. I have french bulldogs and they can't swim, so we had it built 2' high. That was more than tall enough and probably still is, but I have a very exuberant younger dog now, so that keeps me from being paranoid all the time. I seriously doubt he could get up there, but I would lose him in a matter of minutes if he did. Someone who lives a couple of blocks away was consistently losing fish from a small ground-level pond a couple of years ago. He finally caught a heron snacking, so I know there's one around here somewhere. I can't believe I've been this lucky for so long, but I did have some fish disappear last year, which I just thought was the raccoons. When I had it netted in the fall I found some water hyacinth fished out and left on the side, which looked like raccoon evidence to me. I would think if the heron had found them he would have cleaned them all out. Maybe not since they were really skiddish for so long. Thank you babalu aye for your description. That makes me believe that I can possibly get away with just stretching some line across the top a couple of times. I'll try that before I get all crazy with the whole thing. I hated to net it the first year, but was surprised at how it disappeared from a few feet away. And I really couldn't see it from the window which is how I view it for the most part in the winter anyway. Angela...See MoreSuggestions needed to replace brick planter walls
Comments (22)I think painting the boards has already helped :) I agree with the masses about the planter not being right for the pool. However, I think you can change it's volume with plants for this year (and let the pool be the big cost for now). I've got some similar planters. I've gardened before, but not in this climate. So I'm going to suggest the two part process I used. See what's in the stores, writing down the names of plants you like. Then check the Sunset garden book, to see what it says. Then make lots of purchases of relataivly cheap plants -- nothing too large and pricy. Do try to coordinate the plants -- if some want lots of water and some don't plant them in groups a different ends of the planters, or in different planters. (I called this two part, but really, I keep going back and forth). I've found in the past that "full sun" can mean drastically different things for different plants, so I've only planted things that I won't be too upset to lose, and I'm seeing who does best (with the sun at my house and how much I'm willing to water, etc). You could also try some thing like Scarlet runner beans or Sweet peas along the fence. I *think* they will grow up the fence and break the visual line without needing trellis, and they grow quickly but just in the summer. You'll probably be better off getting plants locally, you can get them a little bit bigger. You could try doing a seach on the web - there's an organizations that small nurseries belong to... I think....See MoreNeed a Clematis for my umbrella trellis
Comments (20)Msrose, I agree that some of the ones with larger flowers look stunning, but I have no experience growing them. Hopefully someone else in Texas will add their experience. If you've never seen it before, there is an online article from 2006 written by a person who grows clematis in Atlanta - she lists those that have been successful for her as well as some that have not. I cannot link directly to the article, but on the home page there is a list of articles about vines. If you scroll down a little more than halfway through the list, there is an article called "Growing clematis in hot climates". Once you get to the article, you will see that most of her list appears in blue type - these are active links that will open that clematis page on the right hand side of the screen. Perhaps this will give you some ideas. Everyone's yard is different, with different soil, different light exposure and different water. I think that if there is a clematis that you really like, you should just give it a try. If you don't mind experimenting, I'm sure there are others that can take more heat. Of course, a bit of shade in the afternoon could always be helpful, too. Here is a link that might be useful: Clematis Container Nursery...See Morestephwebb
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