Garden Pictures Chat Corner

We built an inexpensive pergola with a gate to the forest and started with our Benjes / deadwood corner.

The pergola is quite wobbly (because it’s cheap) and we drilled it onto locust posts so that it has no contact with the ground.
I also want to let it take root. I ordered two different native honeysuckles and a native clematis.
Wild grapevine is already growing on the ground, which I will partially transplant so that it reaches the pergola and the hedge faster.

Such a deadwood hedge really swallows a lot of material and we have almost 27 meters to fill.

We haven’t put in all the posts yet, but the beginning is made.
The hedge is between 40 and 50 cm wide and winds through our small strip of forest.
I think it’s very cute (and yes, the pergola is a bit crooked, but it doesn’t bother me :D).
This is how it looks coming from the forest:

That you now still find time and energy for something like this is truly admirable...

Thank you :).
The house is just heating up and it’s 45 degrees inside, we’re not putting ourselves through that.
And strangely, gardening is more relaxing for me (even though everything hurts today) than the house stuff :D

After 3 years, our terrace roof will finally be built. Unfortunately, the first carpenter kept us waiting for almost 1.5 years and in the end didn’t even answer the phone, even though he had already done the roofs of the house and the garage.

Where do you get all the material from, is it all lying around in your strip of forest? And what material did you use for the posts?

Where do you get all the material from, is it all lying around in your forest strip? And what material did you use for the stakes?

A lot of it is lying around with us, yes! But I think we will post an ad on classifieds again that we take green waste :D, because it's still far from enough. We used locust stakes, they can withstand ground contact and are very hard.