Spring Cleaning and Preparation

The weather has been so mild, so good - it's time already to clean and prepare the hardscape because bulbs are already coming up and so are vines (hops are budding and Sweet Autumn Clematis is FINALLY established and beginning to show good growth). The tweeking continues, to make this garden feel as Mediterranean as possible.

So I'm painting the arbor and its fence cream to match the trim on the house and to brighten the garden and banish the darkness from that corner. I need some beautiful creamy walls to grow elegant vines against. I started priming yesterday.

That top spot is going to be hard to get.

I'm not sure if I'm going to paint the door or not. I will leave it undone at first because I want to see if I can end up with an impression like this:

White walls, wood door. We'll see.