Garden Projects

This photo has nothing to do with woodworking other than the logs surrounding it. I just wanted to show off my new flowerbed.

Here's another shot showing the pyramid (in the flower bed on the left) I built for my Morning Glories to climb.

A close up of the Pyramid with Morning Glories climbing it. It is the first project I made from "plans" and was almost harder than some of my own designs. It is from the May 2001 issue of Birds & Blooms.

This is a trellis I built for some Clematis a neighbor gave me. I hope that next year the vine will grow and cover the lattice.

Here are two similar trellises in the back yard garden, also for Clematis to climb. I cut back the limbs on the walnut tree to the left and am hoping for bigger vines next year.

This shows the 3 scrolled plant hangers I made for my front porch posts.

I used yellow pine for the "scrolled" part and salt treated for the hanger section. The scrolled part is stained with Cedar Cuprinol, the hanger with Mahogany. There's a slot I made in the hanger to receive the scroll. I did that with the drill press and cleaned up the edges with my new chisels.

This is one of two planters I have on my deck for Begonias. It's joined with biscuits and TiteBond II.

I bought this bike planter and after a few weeks outside the "box" literally fell apart, so I built a new one. If you look closely you can see that the baby robin likes it.