Jin - I'm glad I got you to laugh. And I'm also the Queen of Exclamation Points (QEP for short LOL)

Carol

rosecanadian--not a film so much as a scene for a television show. The very final episode of "Nashville" used my back yard. Two days of hustle and bustle for what will probably be less then a minute scene. Crazy, really. It was March and still cold so they came in and pimped up the gardens with silk flowers. The rose buses all have the wrong colored flowers on them and its kind of funny to a rose nerd. I might do a post later since I think it airs end of July and I don't want to spill the beans as to how it all ends for anyone who watches. The globe topper was something they added, then left for me.

Subk3 - how fabulous!!! How did they find out about your yard? I guess, we're hijacking this thread though. :) But really cool!

Carol

No problem hijacking Carol... I'd like to know too... although I don't think we get ''Nashville'' over here... I've not heard of that...

wow the umbrella trellis is so covered in bloom that it looks like a tree rose.

Bay Area Girl the privacy screen structure your dad built is fantastic, especially with Eden. What a fantastic choice.

bay area girl.... I was just going to say the same as Cori Ann, quite superb. Is there a more feminine rose than that?. Your Dad obviously knows just the sort of thing we need for our climbing roses..

Thanks Cori Ann and Marlorena. I know nothing about building stuff so my dad helped with that. I need to learn Cori Ann’s skill to build garden structures :) My first task is to run wires horizontally against the fence so I can train the climbing roses next to it. Wish me luck, lol. Helen

Great thread, Malorena! So many pretty supports, and so many lovely gardens! I'm going to have to borrow a few of the tripod ideas - easy, affordable, and I can make them myself - no welder required!

Bayarea_girl, I think that's the prettiest privacy screen I've ever seen!

When I get home I'll post pics of the towers I've got. I really should have done that this weekend in my own thread - I'm using work as my excuse.

Thanks AC. I appreciate my dad more every time I look out the windows and see the flower curtain instead of my neighbor’s windows :) Helen

Helen - I am gob-smacked!!! I showed your rose covered trellis to my husband, and he just laughed in disbelief...I can't imagine having that in my yard!!! Droool!!

Carol

Helen, that is so crazy beautiful. What a wonderful idea.

Thanks Carol and JS. I had a vision of how it would look a few years ago and I'm glad it turned into reality. Helen

Bayarea, your arbor is one of a kind made with love by your Dad. He is really good with craft and all. Excellent job, detailing and shape looks like a pro. One of the best arbor, I ever seen. Beautiful choice of roses.

Every trellis, I see is not here but in UK. Meant, style wise. I am still looking around, hope I can find something that will jump out and say....Me.

Lol

Jin

Sub, I also want to hear and see more of your backyard on Neshville. So, common on, spit out those beans.... pretty please...:)

You are not running anyone show but showing your backyard..this is so exciting...how could you not...lol :)

Jin

Okay, let draw/vote...who watches this series say Yay or Nay ...on Neshville

I say......Nay

( Sorry being naughty and mischievous ). Sorry Sub, you don't have too but I am gonna to have a little fun...sorry Marlorena. )

Jin

Nay for me too. :)

Carol

Nay for me - my antenna still isn't hooked up after the move. Between Netflix and Amazon Video I haven't missed it much. Although now I want to find the last episode and watch it to see Subk3's garden!

Here's my rose tower(s) - good ol' welded rebar.

I'm going to paint them before they go into the ground, thinking black or dark green. They're 6 1/2 ft from the bottom cross-piece to the top, and the legs are going into the ground up to that cross-piece.

Here is my trellis in a pot for Florentina. I am sure she will over grow this and I am looking for an obelisk for her.

Hello :),

I have most of my climbers awaiting their supports. My husband made me one arch trellis last summer.

I apologize for the scrapes on the paint. The front of the house will be repainted in a week.

Cheap Plastic trellis from amazon with a rose I bought from Walmart mislabeled as Don Juan. I don’t know what it is, but it doesn’t look like what I thought Don Juan would look like.

Wow!!! Diana - your husband made you a gorgeous trellis!!!

Carol

Diana that is so cool. It looks perfect in front of your house. The trellis looks awesome :)

Jin

That trellis your husband made is fantastic, Diana. I have a friend that wants to make a copper pipe trellis. I will show your photo to him.

Did you weld that rebar AC? Good job. And bayarea girl's dad! There are some talented people and their relatives on this forum. Love the Climbing Pinkie on the umbrella trellis Cori Ann!

These are amazing trellises and supports. Did you follow any tutorials? Folks, please stop apologizing for random things around your property or I will never be able to post pics of my rosesI I only notice my own mess; I'm too obsessed with the roses to notice anything else! : ))

I found 4 arbors under grape vines at the country property. I could use them for 4 climbers........

Before:

After:

Terrific summersrhythm. I never would have guessed that they were there.

Here is a link to the instructions that my friend wants to follow when he makes his copper trellis: DIY Metal-arbor-for-the-garden. I hope he builds it soon so that he can plant the climbing roses that he already has.

That's like finding gold! They look really well made, as well!

Thanks Jasmine and Vaporvac.......and back in Feb, I found 11 wooden trellises at HD for $5 each, 2 planter for $15 each. What a bargain!

Most of you have seen my arbors before but for those you who haven’t….
I built the wood arbor except for the seat.

Beautiful and Atmospheric! Have you any more detailed pictures?

ac91 … love your obelisks, they're much like mine as I thought, similar height and widths... they're quite cheap here but effective enough for our purposes..

totoro… yours is the trellis, and very nice it is too... I see those here and keep thinking I need one..

diane… I love your white arch over the entrance, just wonderful...

summers... how fortunate to get those arches, you would never know they were there... lucky you!.. I'd love some like that..

toolbelt.. that's a gorgeous photo above, absolutely love it.. you've very clever to be able to make these things like that...

Toolbelt - !!!!!!!!!!!!! That is beyond gorgeous!!! SWOON!!!

Carol

Toolbelt, we all want one! Beautiful!

Here is shot a couple years after I built it. Today the Dogwood tree takes over the whole corner. Should anyone want to build one we can start another thread and I'll walk you though the process.

Does anyone use a sturdy but inconspicuous obelisk in a prominent location?

I don't think I want to mess with a trellis, because that seems like more effort.

I'm thinking I will need a support structure for Lavender Crush, which is going right in the middle of my front foundation bed.

I’m a rookie at growing roses so please forgive my question if it is dumb - do you only grow climbing roses on the obelisks/trellises/etc? I have several DA roses - Mayflower, England’s Rose, Princess Anne and Winchester Cathedral. Should I be using obelisks or other supports for them? My garden is less than 2 years old so they are only about 3’ tall so far.

I also have Gertrude Jekyll planted next to my pergola that I want to eventually climb over it. Should I have some kind of bridge support to get it up the corner posts (they are 6x6 wood posts)?

edenchild, I think the answer is "it depends".

I have seen people here grow David Austin shrubs, not climbers, on obelisks because they get so large and the habit of the bush is very lax.

In zone 8, which is roughly where I am, I wouldn't be growing Princess Anne, W Cathedral or Englands Rose on supports, I don't think I would need any for those, but keep them as freestanding shrub roses... I might put a metal cane in to give a rose a little support if a cane is floppy or somesuch... I do that with 'Poet's Wife' which tends to flop... with The Mayflower I think it's a little taller and I might give that a short obelisk to lean on..

With G Jekyll, and Graham Thomas, roses like these, they throw out long rambling canes... I keep GT as a shrub as that's how I want it, and I used to do that to G J as well, so I pruned those canes back to the bush height,... but if you don't prune it, it should be trainable up that post.. depends how far away you have it placed...

Thanks, JC and Marlorena. I’m in BC so very similar climate to yours, Marlorena. The GJ at the front of the pergola is about 24” away but I can’t get it much closer. (Pics with grass). I’m less worried about the back post (pic with rock) - GJ is already reaching out to it.

Oh that's ok, very nicely done.... she will throw up canes for you to work with over the course of time, and attach to that post... as long as you don't mind the thorns...

Looking at your rose, I would expect one such cane to appear after the first flush...

..some training in the right direction might be needed of course...

This is the view from farther back so you can see why they are just on one side...

oh gosh that's gorgeous...what a lovely summerhouse or whatever you use it for.. I'd love that, and the pergola too... I can see what you mean... I've never grown GJ as a climber so I'm not certain of her abilities to reach, but certainly the top of those posts should be attainable.. I'm not sure how much further she would go across the top..

Of course if that was mine I would get carried away.. and this is what I would do.. I see you have another post on the left close to the grass... I would remove about 18 inches of grass all along from left to right in front of the paved area, and right where that post is I would plant a 'Mme Alfred Carriere' rose or some other of one's choice.. I would infill the whole length of the strip with annuals or low perennials, whatever.. otherwise that post is going to waste and I'd want to make use of it with another rose...

Love the boulders too...

Oooo, if you did grow Madame Alfred Carriere (or some other robust climber) she would easily cover the top of the pergola (and maybe part of the building) meeting Gertrude Jekyll at that rose makes her way up the other post.

I remember this pergola! Thank you so much for the update! Yes, it needs MAC. : ) Also, what's going on with the other two supports? ; ) They look lonely to me.

Marlorena, thanks so much for your compliments and advice. I can’t plant in front of the patio since it is a traffic route from the stone steps to the right. I may plant another rose in front of the left post though - such a good idea. I’ll add that to this year’s “to do” list.

This structure is my dream garden shed that my DH and a neighbour built for me last year. I’ve included a few interior pictures. It was finished last October so my first real use for it was starting seeds in the last month.

And my apologies to everyone for highjacking this thread. I’ll shut up now.

That's absolutely phenomenol! It's a She Shed! ; )

...I could live in that...

Jen, ugly pictures are my favorites because that’s most relatable to me ha.

I currently have no plants in my beds but the bright purple bag with a Lavender Crush inside has been sitting on top of the soil for 3 days now. That would make a great “ugly picture”.

Thats the kind of low key obelisk I would use.

Well now that you’ve seen it I’m deleting the photo so as not to dirty this gorgeous thread!! Haha