Comments on: The transitory rustic garden arch: Garden Bloggers’ Design Workshop

By: Mr. McGregor's Daughter

Mr. McGregor's Daughter — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:15:27 +0000

What a great use for Boxelder! They’re not much good for anything else (I have about a dozen of them left in my garden, awaiting the chainsaw.)

By: Lisa at Greenbow

Lisa at Greenbow — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:25:35 +0000

Kathy, your natural arbor was great. I take cues from the natural happenings in my garden too.

I didn’t think of your story as sad but I know that wistful feeling of a natural element slowing bowing out of the garden. The bower in my garden is nearly down. I patch it as time and materials allow. I know it won’t be long and it will be gone with just the brick floor to show for where it stood.

I too dream of those beautiful climbing roses dripping blossoms and frangrance over an arched arbor. I can get the arbor going but the roses illude me. Roses just don’t like me or is it my soil??

By: Gardening Gone Wild » Blog Archive » Garden Bloggersâ€™ Design Workshop â€“ Arbors and Pergolas Wrap-Up

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:02:43 +0000

[...] The Transitory Rustic Garden Arch (Kathy at Cold Climate Gardening): Serendipity at its finest. Why build an arch when you’re lucky enough to have something like this happen? [...]

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:35:48 +0000

Your serendipitious branch arch makes me wish I could afford to have one sculpted or worked in iron to look like it.

ah well, it will just have to inspire me to look for my fortunate acts of nature, and to make the best of them when they happen.

By: Carol

Carol — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:03:05 +0000

Doesn’t every gardener dream of rose covered arbors? I have none in my garden, for the same reason. Winter die back. I’d take it as devine intervention on the garden design if I had a big branch break like that.

By: Don

Don — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:22:46 +0000

Ah, the rose pergola dream…

By: Pam/Digging

Pam/Digging — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:14:58 +0000

I’m using a weeping yaupon branch in much the same way. I don’t know why I didn’t think to include it in my arbor post. Probably because I’m not growing anything on it, as you did with your tree branch. But I have enhanced its framing quality with careful pruning, making it more arbor like.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:02:27 +0000

I love your natural arch Kathy. I wish with the ice storm that we had. That it would at least d0 that to one of my tree branches. Instead of snapping them in half.

By: mss @ Zanthan Gardens

mss @ Zanthan Gardens — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:21:56 +0000

After I saw the rose covered arches at Dee/Red Dirt Ramblings, I sort of gasped and thought, "Wow, some gardens really do look like rose catalogs." Your experience is much closer to my own. I love your story because, as we used to say, "I can relate."

By: Nan Ondra

Nan Ondra — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:34:44 +0000

That was a great story, Kathy. I didn’t see it as being sad: more that you got to enjoy a wonderful natural feature for a while, then were free to move on to something else. When the time is right, you will have your rose arbor. But maybe you don’t want to over-think it too much. Go for it, enjoy it while it lasts, laugh over the inevitable mistakes, and then try something else.