Shade Gardening: The changes in your landscape, 1 by rcn48

rcn48 wrote:

Quoting:And who can beat that view?

Well, the "view" isn't as nice since a new neighbor constructed the ugliest building I've ever seen in the middle of that field :( It's two stories high and DH refers to it as the West Virginia service station! Right now we're trying to design our plantings to block the monstrosity without losing the view of the mountains!

Cindy, I'd love to see photos of your copper arbor if you can find any :) I initially came up with the idea for the copper arbor after seeing this thread http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/581881/ and thought, I can do that! What I didn't realize was how much the price of copper had gone up in the past couple of years! Of course my design got a little more complicated than I had originally planned and the $100 budget quickly doubled :( I wanted a "tiered" effect after seeing this wooden arbor and finally came up with this design. It was a long process - I made MANY notes regarding all the cuts and only made one mistake which required another length of copper :) The biggest problem I had was learning how to solder the joints. For some reason after my first successful attempts the solder wouldn't melt properly and I've resolved myself to using glue which is why it's taking so long to finish. It's either too hot or too cold to work on it or... I'd just rather be playing in the garden!