see the bumble bee in the middle of the flower!

Morning Glory

Plus Honey Suckle is covering our back fence.

Fencing does not need to be boring.   Personally I am doing my best to cover ours with living plants.  Here is just one section of our fencing.  In different areas we are planting different things.  The front yard features some square tubing that Jim has bent into archways and we are growing grapes on them.   We just harvested seven gallons off of two plants.   It filled two laundry baskets and we juiced them.   We will enjoy that fence covering all winter!

As you can tell by the second photo, the bumble bees love the morning glory.   How often do you see bumble bees anymore?  Not often unless you plant something they love.

The first fence is from Portland, Ore., artist Jane Hart used playful ingenuity to makes this garden fence practical and beautiful. She embellished and framed weathered slats with stained and treated wood. The short fence inside the garden combines decorative panels made from new cedar with inexpensive wire mesh — "a design element requested by the family dog," Hart says.

For the front fence, she framed weathered, embellished slats with new cedar boards and treated posts.

Do you have any great fence ideas?  I would love to see them.