Hi again Jess Aloha gets very bushy and dense after a few years though healthy and gives lots of flowers. Has to be carefully pruned not to look messy up an arbor. Coral Dawn is easy to train up an arbor and easy to maintain, likes lots of organic fertilizer. Is has red thorns but I would not say very thorny, there are thorns though, less than New Dawn. If your arbor is rather wide you might want to plant two plants of Coral Dawn. Lots of light fresh fragrance. Perhaps there is a Coral Dawn growing near you so you can see it for real.

The darlingtonias was first started growing there because long tine ago, wild collected plants were taken from the wild and placed into pots with plastic clear dome covers and sold as cobra lilies among venus fly traps and sundews. The practice became illegal when these plants were taken by the hundred thousands for the annual cp sales in super markets and grocers, etc. The plant never grew well for most people, especially our warm Hawaiian climate. Luckily one person who grew up where th darlingtonias were growing remarked that these plants grew best along the marginal bogs closest to running water from snow seepage and thus a few were planted along embankments of some people who had natural artesian springs welling out of the ground. The plants colonized like it naturally grew there. So much so that it would look weedy to people who did know what they were. Unfortunately the people who purchased the land where these were growing, had other agenda for buying this. They wanted to raise trout and other cold water food fishes and anything that blocked access to the pools were quickly removed. Among them, the lovely groups of darlingtonias.

Oh I love that one. I love sunrises and sunsets. That is NICE. Really evokes a setting, if that makes sense. Thanks for sharing Minrose.

Lovely shots. I think I liked the first one best. That tree has some character. The neighbor across the street from me to the east has some rather uninspiring looking cottonwoods (don't know why he didn't get my input 20 years ago on what might look best in my sunrise photos now). Fortunately, mother nature adds a backdrop occasionally that needs little in the way of props.