From e-mails and posts, it sounds like Secret Santa has a great many presents in transit. Yahoo! Keep posting when you receive yours! :o) Being the head Secret Santa, it seems like it's the North Pole here!!!! We've had freezing temperatures. (One night this week it got down to minus 15 degrees here. BRRRRR!) Then, a MAJOR snow storm hit us. We have 3 feet of snow on our deck now...most of which came non-stop yesterday and last night! I just spent 3 hours plowing us out, and IT'S STILL SNOWING! It's so pretty though out here in the woods. All of the schools have been cancelled so I have the day off from teaching. It's a bummer though as we had to cancel our Christmas concert last night, and our class party is tomorrow, the last day before break. Many roads have been shut down as well. IT'S THE NORTH POLE! Ho Ho Ho! I'll attach a picture looking out our deck doors just now. I'll also attach a link to the deep snow we got in January (for those of you who didn't see my post back then) which kept us out of school for a week! Bear Hugs! Kirk Here is a link that might be useful: Winter Snow in January

Realistically, most plants will flower in some fashion. I'd probably use a widely spaced wire mesh to provide the structure to grow on. If you set it on a diagonal with a metal or wood frame that may look more decorative. Some suggestions: You can plant a clematis that needs full sun to flower well (and so will be relatively non-flowering) or an atragene clematis that does its blooming early in the season before you will be wanting to spend lots of time in your pergola and before the bees in my garden are active other than an occasional bumblebee which make noise but don't bother me. After May most Atagenes are done blooming. Hardy Kiwi - there is a variety of male plant with pink/white variegated leaves you could try, Actinidia kolomikta 'Arctic Beauty',though the color in the leaves doesn't show for a few years. Grown as a foliage plant, but don't know how attractive to bees the flowers are. Coral honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens? I am wondering if since it has such a deep narrow flower (which hummingbirds love) whether the bees would not be interested due to not being able to reach the goodies? I will watch mine this summer and let you know, but after doing a web search, where many sites lumped birds, butterflies and bees together, I did find 2 sites that said specifically that bees aren't attracted to coral honeysuckle due to the depth of the flowers, FWIW. Groundnut, Apios americana does have flowers, but for a relatively short time in late August/early September. The flowers are large and you could trim them off for your significant other. The leaves are compound and the plant grows from small tubers, so if you plant several along the base of your wires they may well be thick enough to give you the desired privacy. Consider some alternatives instead of plants as well. A large piece of sun resistant fabric (like what is used to cover outdoor cushions) that suits your taste (I'll bet you can find it with a trellis of vines printed on it) or some decorative flags hung like wall hangings over the opening or a sculptural metal screen may suit your purposes without the bee issue that live blooming plants creates.

thanks you guys for all the suggestions! We were split with my wife on either continuing the line from the cabinets or the line of the bottom of the hood. We ended up going with the cabinet line even though we sacrifice "cleanability" later. We kept tiles around in case we regret it later and want to go up, but right now it seemed right to us... PS: the web site doesnt seem to allow me to upload more than 1 file at a time so not sure how to send the other photoshoped pictures

I wish I could be of help ac91z6, but I'm rather clueless when it comes to this topic. The first rose Edmunds sent me a rep told me their horticulturist believed it to be crown gall and to destroy the plant. They shipped new plants, and the new rose had similar roots to the first, I sent them pictures of the new one, and this time their horticulturist called me and told me this was normal for Francis Meilland's roots, and to not worry about planting the rose. I am not a horticulturist, so I took his word at face value and planted the rose. I'm not entirely naive, and created a paper trail with them should I have a problem down the road given the conflicting information they gave me. Out of the 80+ roses I've planted in the past three years, FM is the only one with roots that looked like that. My advice would be to reach out to Regan, offer to send them pictures and see what they say.