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Posted by sandy0225 z5 Indiana (My Page) on Wed, Jan 26, 05 at 8:33
| It was a little warmer here yesterday (45 degrees), and I had been wanting to try and make a garden arch while my ice storm sticks were still green and pliable. So I made this one, it took 6 hours. Not too bad for a first try. I'll probably tweak it out a little more this spring, and put some more decorative type touches on it. Any suggestions for vines for partial shade--5 hours of sun? Hopefully blooming. |
Here is a link that might be useful: twig arch
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Sandy,
You need to go to your community page of Webshots when adding a link to your pictures. You attached the owner page and no one but you is allowed there.
Looking forward to seeing this picture.
dena |
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| oops! just when I think I have things figured out. It's in the twig projects folder. Thanks for looking! |
Here is a link that might be useful: twig projects
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Sandy,
I love what you have done with the "disaster" from the ice storm. The chairs, loveseat and sofa look great. I love the arches. You put a lot of work in making the ice storm work for you.
Kayma |
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| Sandy, how long have you been making twig furniture? You've done a beautiful job on both the furniture and arch! What a perfect opportunity the ice storm presented for more materials for your art. I really enjoyed the pictures of the ice storm results, just gorgeous! I hope you don't mind, but I checked out your pond pictures as well. What a very nicely planted pond! Did you have it installed or dig it out yourself? It's funny to see the same plants as we grow here year round located around your pond and in your greenhouse. As far as planting vines on the twig arch, I'm no pro, but I would think you might want to add a few more twigs to get continuous coverage. The vine I find to do well in partial shade is the bleeding heart. You should find it to be a vigorous grower without becoming woody or destructive. How it survives cold weather, I can't advise, since we don't get that much here in Fla. Thanks for sharing your pictures! Your composition is very good. |
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My dad and I dug the pond ourselves, April 2004, with the help of his large skid loader. Not too imaginative with the shape, it's 1 loader bucket wide.It's roughly 8X10X 48 inches deep. We did a much larger pond this fall, 20X25 X36 inches deep, but the ice storm killed it. Will need a new liner this spring due to a 36" diameter willow tree's help!
I've been doing twig furniture since January 8th, 2005 or so, when the ice storm hit. So I'm a newbie! But I've been having lots of fun.
One thing that really didn't show up in the picture is that I've "planted" a lot of double rose of sharon cuttings at the base of all those arch sticks. I'm hoping that as they grow I can weave them into this arch and keep it going long after the sticks deteriorate in the weather. Sort of a transforming project, twig arch to living arch/trellis.Has anyone done this? I would love suggestions. |
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| Sandy! You did an awesome job!!! I have always wanted to do something like that and I thought it would take a long time but I guess it's like making chinese food, it's all in the cutting up of the ingredients first and then boom! it's built! Well, you are very inspiring, thanks for posting! Jane |
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| Just got to love twig projects!!! Timothy |
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Great projects!
With 5 hours of sun you should be able to grow roses on it. |
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