A Portal to Somewhere!

I love the idea of making "rooms" in the garden.  It's not always easy and sometimes you need a fence, but one cool way is to forget the fence and just build a gateway -- a portal from here to there that implies a change of space without presenting a physical barrier. That's the beauty of an "Arbour".
We currently have one as you enter the front patio and one as you leave the other end - and one in the middle to take you to the front yard. The entry and exit arbours are hot to bead curtains to further create the room effect.   The one in the middle just had to go as it was burdened with old vines and starting to rot.  So Chris  took that one down:

 

and like magic he built a new one:

I will be staining it this weekend, and Chris will fix up the old one and we will use it to create a portal to the pond out the back somewhere. Have not decided if this one will have bead curtains yet or not.

There was only one drama during the exercise.  Poor Chris hit a wasp nests in the boxwood while he was working around it and he got stung 4 times on his forearm.  The swelling was dreadful.  I wrapped it in vinegar soaked gauze to take the sting away.  I didn;t know that wasp stings are alkaline and bees are acidic - so you treat with the opposite - vinigar vs baking soda.