nerd gardening

We recently had Evergreen Clematis planted in the backyard next to our arbor. The service that brought the plants left them attached to the bamboo post from the nursery. I took it upon myself to begin training the plants to our arbor. Rather than using twine, which required one more hand than I possess, I elected to use my cable ties. Cable ties are usually used to tie cables (duh) in electronics projects; they seem to be doing a fine job holding up my new vine…