Northeast Gardening: Garden Projects #13, 1 by wha

wha wrote:
not the greatest picture - i built two of these trellis to replace the ones i built out of hickory saplings a few years ago that have rotted. used an old design from birds and blooms that called for cedar, copper piping and copper wire for scrolls. When i say old design the cost was estimated at $60 a trellis to build. The copper wire alone was .98/ft and it called for 115' ft per trellis - could buy a real nice one for that.

so i used pressure treated 2x2's (hard to find straight ones!), copper piping, and bagged the scrolls as nothing i could find was sturdy enough to keep the scroll shape. ordered the cobalt blue tops instead of making ones from wood. The trellis are 8' tall and will be buried at least a foot into the ground so they do not get blown over.

second one came out much better than the first which was no surprise - not a big deal as the clematis back there are pretty aggressive and will cover them soon enough.