Fence and Chinese Gate
Gardening Gone Wild has a Design Workshop on fences and walls (which is an excellent idea), so I’ll chip in with my most recent fence.
This is the entrance to the service area and vegetable garden. The mess in that corner of the garden is past praying for, what with compost piles, our johnboat, Richard’s dinghy, and piles of lumber from tearing out the deck. So I decided to screen it off with a fence, made largely from timbers recycled from the deck.
I also needed somewhere to put the dragon fountain Richard gave me, which is not really designed for the great outdoors, being made of plywood with a coating of fiberglass. But I had to rescue it because he commissioned it specially and I have developed a fondness for that foolish head. I made some repairs to the top half, which seemed rescueable. It was obviously not going to last long if exposed to the elements, so I decided a roofed gateway would give it a bit of protection.
The red paint was to give the gateway a vaguely Chinese look that would make the dragon feel at home. The pond beneath the dragon looks all right in this photo, but it has not proved a success. I am going to have to rethink that.
This photo was also taken before the Clematis armandii on the right died. That’s the second one that has died in the same position. I don’t know why. I put them there because they do so well in England that I assumed they liked it wet, and that is the vegetable garden, so it gets plenty of water. Tom has a lovely one just a few blocks from here, so it’s not that you can’t grow them in Savannah. I think I will just conclude that armandii is not for me, and give up on it.
Thanks for sharing the story of your fence project, Karen! It’s super that you were able to use recycled lumber for so much of it.
Comment by Nan Ondra — December 31, 2007 @ 5:46 am
It helps to be lazy. It’s a lot easier to stack old lumber in the garden and then reuse it, than to take the old lumber to the dump and then drag new lumber from the store!
Comment by karen — December 31, 2007 @ 8:42 am
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Pingback by Gardening Gone Wild » Blog Archive » Garden Bloggers’ Design Workshop – December Wrap-Up — December 31, 2007 @ 10:24 pm
The arbor is the perfect foil for the dragon. It also is an excellent disguise/diversion from the utility area beyond it. As for the Clematis - my philosophy is to give a plant 3 chances. Then, if it has died 3 times, I deemed it ungrowable in my garden.
Comment by Mr. McGregor's Daughter — January 5, 2008 @ 5:55 pm
Pretty cool that it is recycled! I think you are going to like this new site Atlanta Garden Fence Designs !!!
Your in Savannah..I are in Athens
Comment by Fence — August 24, 2008 @ 12:39 am
I make dragons, animals, figures and other interesting things, by sewing together color pipe cleaner stems. To date, i have made, and given away free, over 200 dragons, 400 pencil pals, 300 pencil snakes and 20 or more life cycles of various animals, bugs,tree’s and plants, plus many poems to go with each large item. It was an idea I had when I broke my right ankle and right wrist, three years ago. It has been therapy for me and fun for the recipiants of my items.
I do not charge any cost to anyone locally. It does me good to see the eyes light up, when they recieve such an item. I am now 74, retired and having so much fun with this hobby
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