Gardening

[gothwalk]

Right. The wisteria in the back yard has had it; it's just not leafing. At this stage, there are leaves a-plenty on the front door one, and by the middle of summer, it will again be the coming-in-the-window, needs-trimming-every-month monster of last year. The backyard one hasn't even got buds yet. So, I need a creeper to replace it. I'm leaning toward virginia creeper myself, but I think that might be more of a wall than a pergola thing. Vines in the grape sense would be fantastic, but they haven't a hope of growing well outside a greenhouse. Any other recommendations?

Comments

[dorianegray.livejournal.com]

Rambling roses. They're pretty and need almost no looking after aside from the occasional pruning.

[radegund.livejournal.com]

Virginia creeper will EAT YOUR HOUSE.

Just saying.

[graylion.livejournal.com]

this stuff :-)

http://dict.leo.org/?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed&relink=on§Hdr=on&spellToler=std&search=knoeterich

grows easily and the blossoms smell lovely

[ragnvaeig.livejournal.com]

What about clematis? They'd be pretty hardy for the climate and you can usually squish them into the same space as a climbing rose bush that doesn't bloom at the same time--so you could have roses blooming in early summer and clematis flowering toward the fall.

[ragnvaeig.livejournal.com]

Oh, also...if you haven't tried rescue efforts and would like to, you may want to try "root pruning" it: go about 35-50 cm out from the trunk of the plant in early spring and, with a shovel, cut down into the ground and slice through the roots all the way around the plant as deeply as you can manage.