This spring peach French tuteur trellises are the biggest change in my flower gardens. We had them in the vegetable garden for the past few years, and they were burgundy before being painted peach.
As I looked at the narrow flower garden strip below the covered back porch, I realized the peach French tuteur trellises would fit nicely in the space and would help hide the dark open area under the porch.
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Gardens are ever changing landscapes by their very nature. Growing, blooming, fruiting, dying is the natural cycle for plants, but containers, trellises, fences, pathways, and buildings are also part of gardens. Usually they do not change much, but occasionally a change in one or more of them gives a fresh look to an existing old space.
As soon as you approach the backyard along the paver walkway, the French tuteurs in their new spot capture your attention.
Cream clay flower pots sit between three trellises. Blue lobelia leans toward the sun and will spill over the edge of the pots as summer progresses.
Each pot contains a mixture of annual and perennial flowers. Spanish lavender is supposed to be a perennial in my plant zone, but frequently dies when the winter is extremely harsh.
The lobelia is an annual flower, but the white oxalis and blue scabiosa, commonly called pincushion flowers, are dependable perennials which will come back next spring.
At first the trellises sat close to the paver walkway with five existing Russian sage plants behind them. Each of the trellises had a Russian sage behind it, and there was a Russian sage between the trellises.
A week after putting the trellises in place close to the paver walkway, I decided to move the three tuteurs close to the porch to gain room to plant new Provence Lavender in front of each trellis.
By moving the trellises back, the clay pots receive more direct sun.
Two Provence Lavender plants are now planted in front of each of the three trellises.
This new arrangement also makes the existing rosemary plants to line up with the clay pots and new Provence Lavender.
Rosemary seems to like where they are planted. This is their third year and have grown from small 4" starter pots.
Each of the three peach French tuteur trellises sits over a Russian sage, and one Russian sage sits between two trellises. The sage may need to be moved to another location, but are going to stay here for this summer to see how they fare.
Here is a look at how the narrow flower bed below the raised porch looked a year ago the first week of March. The space under the porch is a gaping hole to the eyes. The Russian sage had yet to sprout their new growth and the rosemary plants were much smaller.
With the peach colored trellises the whole area is brightened and your attention is drawn away from the open area under the porch. The peach color blends well with the red and gray multi-colored pavers.
The Provence lavender and the potted flowers' colors look pretty with the peach.
Normally the view of the kitchen breakfast area sunspace is one looking toward the backyard through the windows while sitting inside. Here you can see what the outside of the breakfast sunspace looks like.
Standing in the same place as the last photo, this is the view to the opposite direction. The French style garden shed/house is a few steps away along a paver walkway. Purple oxalis and ivy grow in the large blue pot, and white dianthus grows in the white pot on the bottom step of the stairs to the porch. All of them come back each spring.
This view is from the walkway coming from the driveway. The rye grass meadow is on the right side of the walkway, and the black wrought-iron trellis leads to a path in the native wooded area.
The Virginia Creeper vine near the girl statue is a native plant that grows randomly in wooded areas. Any plant that is native, returns each year, and needs no supplementary water or fertilizer is allowed to grow in my countryside garden ... as long as it not poisonous (poison ivy, poison oak) or has large thorns (saw briars.) Wild blackberries have thorns, but they are small, and the plants provide food for the birds. So they also are allowed to grow in my countryside garden.
The native plants and billowy meadow are unstructured parts of my country garden, while the peach French tuteur trellises add a bit of structured French style to my garden.
My house and garden in the country are French-inspired, but also reflect the natural plants in my region.
happy gardening to you
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