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Supports for morning glory and other climbers
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Hi all I had to cut down a beautiful forsythia today to make room for my potting shed, so hard to do but had to be done( I made OH wait until lit had flowered)
i was wondering if I could use the branches, some over 6 feet as supports for beans etc. they are vey pliable at the moment, but when they dry out will they be strong enough?
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I think they might be ok for short to medium height peas - they need twiggy growth, but I doubt if they'd support the weight of runner beans etc.
You could make a loose wigwam of them for Morning Glories or trailing nasturtiums to scramble over - they're not too heavy and could look quite pretty.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
tsk tsk Dove, lol. We've already discussed the fact that wigwams are round, and it's teepees which are pointed. xx
I used the term advisedly Hostafan - I was thinking of a dome-like structure
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Alan Titchmarsh called it a wigwam the other week in a gardening programme, so I'm sticking with wigwam
I'm wondering what to support my Morning glory with before I plant them out in a couple of weeks. The earlier sown ones are spreading and winding themselves around my courgettes, blind openers thingy and anything the can get at!! I have to keep unravelling them
Thanks all
OL, just because lots of people make the same mistake, doesn't stop it being a mistake: even the great AT. For example Carol Klein, much as I love her is fond of the expression " rising to a crescendo" the crescendo IS the rising part, it rises to a climax.
Off back to Pedants' Corner. xx
Point taken Hosta, but when are taught a word means something from being tiny it is quite hard it suddenly change your mind set 40 years later
Even now if you google wigwam it shows the structures which are teepees, as long as we all know what we mean it doesn't matter really in the grand scheme of things 
It's like a discussion on another thread - the word 'weed' used to mean herb or grass (in other words, any plant that wasn't a bush or a tree) - it wasn't until the Middle Ages that it came to mean 'something growing where it's not wanted'.
One of my favourite books is Melvin Bragg's The Adventure of English.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I learned a few years ago Dove that a weed is a plant that we don't want, so although I love buttercups, if they were in my veg patch they would be a weed, in a meadow they are beautiful flower
I never knew it originally meant grass or herb though, we learn someone new every day 
(I missed that other great by the way)
Don't you just love the English language? xx