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Gardening
Grow up!
By Rhea Hamilton -Seeger
I spent several hours this past
weekend cleaning up our arbour. It is
a six foot long, seven foot high
archway that marks the end of one
garden area and is the entrance to a
small orchard.
I grew up enamoured with the lush
vibrant orange trumpet vine and the
beautiful hummingbirds that feasted
on the nectar. So it was with great
delight that I planted a couple on my
wonderful arch. But they are
relatively slow growing so I planted
hop vine to quickly cover the arbour
and offer some greenery until the
trumpet vine took over. It has been
three years and while I knew that the
hop vine was a tenacious and quick
grower I had not anticipated its
wicked habits.
I spent quite a block of time
digging out the new hop shoots and
disentangling its sticky sharp vines
from my roses planted next to the
arbour. Although I had gloves on and
long pants, my exposed arms were
scratched and I had to run to the
house to get some cold water on the
lacerations. So my lesson here is to
be very careful what you plant on that
wonderful arbour.
There is a wonderful swing back
to arbours, trellises and pergolas and
with it a wonderful new selection of
new vines to plant and enjoy. A trellis
is a wall, or section, of lattice, an
arbour is an arched trellis and a
pergola is a heavy timbered corridor
where plants provide shade to plants
and people. Trellises and arbours may
be placed at strategic places in the
garden but pergolas have to have a
definite purpose either extending a
front or rear wall of a house or
delineating a terrace or secluded
section of the garden.
There are a number of advantages
to trellises. You can dress up a back
porch or front entranceway, use it to
hide a compost pile or use it as a
privacy fence. They arc a great way
to garden for those who have
problems with their backs or knees.
You can grow climbing peas, beans,
cucumbers, small squash and grapes.