The New Garden Arbour

Arbour ..... We have just installed a new garden arbour at the front entry to the garden. It is in green tubular steel screwed together in many short sections. We bought it for $A20.00 up at the local hardware store ..... it was made in China.

The four corner posts were initally wired to some sturdy timber pegs beneath the soil to secure them. Mixed concrete was then added to the four holes around the four corner posts.

I had old bricks stored on concrete slab up the top of the land from eleven years ago from my former landscape and contract business. I wheelbarrowed dowen several barrows of bricks and paved the short section under the arbour. This matched the rest of the brick paving in the path leading to the house and in the amhitheatre.

The presence of an arbour provides a real sense of entry into the garden as series of outdoor rooms of belonging but each room is on a different level.

We had a front entry pot of a beautiful flowering subtropical creeper called 'Dipladenia'. It throws small tendrils out with small green leaves and in spring and beautiful pink tubular flowers. We moved the pot down adjacent the new arbour. As the vine grows, the tendrils can be trained over the arbour. The vine will flower in spring with many beautiful pink tubular flowers.

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