Garden Arch

I got a memory come up on Facebook to say our garden arch I made is now 12 months old. The use of sheep mesh and star pickets made this a very cheap item in our garden.

We have currently three Hardenbergia’s growing on this arch, one we bought at Bunning’s, one our friend gave us, the last was a seedling we found on a bush track that a grader had pushed up. All three are growing great, especially the latter, which sat for ages before deciding to race to the top of the arch.

One we got from a friend, is actually from seed that the late Bill Cane, local Nurseryman and Plant breeder had collected seed for. When Bill died, his seed collection was given to a friend of mine and together with the local Native Nursery, grew some seed for it. What eventuated is a narrow leaf form with pink flowers, which doesn’t have the tendrils that H. violacea has and just scraambles across the ground.

Here are two photos, one when I built the arch, the other one year on with the climbers attached.