From death...a beautiful display?

DON'T CUT THAT DEAD TREE DOWN! It's clematis season, and climbing roses are already in bud. Do you need a way to beautifully display these wonderful plants? Think about using the skeletons of dead trees in prominent locations as trellises for climbers.

Turtle Point has a number of locations where native Kalmias are beginning to die off. Rather than cut them down and grub out their stumps, we've begun planting clematis and climbing roses at their twisting, muscular bases.

Dead trees make beautiful trellises--and they are already anchored in the ground with their intact and spreading root systems. Many will last for years with no care whatsoever. Wreathed with flowering vines, their spreading crowns take on new life even after they've lost their own.

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