Installing Vine Covered Garden Arbors: Tips, Tricks, And Design Ideas
Learn how to enhance your garden with whimsical vine-covered garden arbors. Get tips, tricks, and design ideas for creating charming garden portals in your own yard spaces!
Tools:
- half moon edger to cut shapes
- rebar posts to mount to
- hammer to pound in posts
- metal garden rake to smooth surface
- flat edged shovel to scoop away mounds
Supplies:
- metal garden arbor
- garden vines of choice
- vine fertilizer
- enriched soil additives
Instructions:
How to install a free-standing arbor
- Decide where to place the arbor, styled as a whimsical portal into another garden area. Consider the view while glancing through it.
- Dry-fit the arbor where you'd like it to be.
- Use the garden arbor as a template, then cut the sod around the arbor.
- Move the arbor, then smooth and rake soil until level.
- Position a garden arbor in desired location.
- Pound in support rebar posts - 1 or 2 on each side. Posts should be 12 inches in the ground and 12+ inches above ground.
- Zip-tie arbor to posts.
- Plant a vine near the base of the arbor or into an oversized barrel or pot.
- Keep soil moist and fertile until the vine starts to thrive.
Notes
View more of Part 1 in the garden arbor series at:
https://www.funkyjunkinteriors.net/garden-arbors/
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