Using natural materials and borrowing shapes from nature as well, bentwood is a perfect accent for gardens and yards. With simple step-by-step directions from Jim Long, you will learn to collect limbs from a wide variety of native trees as a part of pruning and then use those limbs to make beautiful, sturdy, bentwood projects. Featured are dozens of charming design ideas to suit any landscape, plus simple installation techniques.
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Long has written a friendly, conversational book about bentwood garden accessories, some fantastic, others prosaic or elegantly simple. In nine main chapters, he covers selecting wood, making a basic trellis, more elaborate and decorative trellis designs, bentwood gates, bentwood fences, arbors, and trellises made without bentwood. He discusses the selection of plants for your structures, and finally, adds a chapter on simply enjoying your bentwood structures, even going so far as to include a few yummy recipes for muffins, teas, and shortbread to savor in your newly created garden environment!
The techniques outlined by Long can be easily adapted to your own individual designs and creative ideas. As Bertha Reppert, the founder of the Rosemary House, says, "I shall never look at plant prunings the same way again." Bentwood garden structures offer a natural, eye-pleasing alternative to plastics and mass-manufactured garden installations, making use of the garden itself to generate construction materials that might otherwise end up burned or in a landfill. --Mark A. Hetts
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"I shall never look at plant prunings the same way again." -- Bertha Reppert, herbalist, author, lecturer, and founder of The Rosemary House in Mechanicsburg, PA
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This review is from: Making Bentwood Trellises, Arbors, Gates & Fences (Rustic Home Series) (Paperback)
If you love the romantic look of twig trellises, arbors, gates and fences (not to mention wattling), this is the book for you! Using raw materials that most people have or can get for free (and Jim Long tells how to do this, too), the reader is led through the step-by-step process to make a variety of pictured designs.Long also tells what tools and materials you need, how to make a work space, how to construct the basic trellis, and how to install it (including securing it in the ground). There's even a chapter on selecting plants for your new trellis. Best of all, Long reveals the trick for actually getting your creation to look like the picture (hint: it involves a picnic table). This is a book for dreaming and doing!
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A descriptive detailed book on how to make trellises.,
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This review is from: Making Bentwood Trellises, Arbors, Gates & Fences (Rustic Home Series) (Paperback)
The illustrations were very good as a first time person to trellis making, I found this book very exciting. The author made it simple for people to follow and do the project. I liked the detail he gave for making each project. Making arches to gates for your flower garden, they are all nice pieces of art. He tells also what is great to grow on the trellises. Thanks
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This review is from: Making Bentwood Trellises, Arbors, Gates & Fences (Rustic Home Series) (Paperback)
This book gives good directions and shows many attractive ideas. I am going to try a living fence and some supports for pole beans in the garden-that should be much prettier than the metal posts and twine I used last year.
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My love for bentwood started in early childhood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bentwood gates, bentwood projects, second crosspiece, basic trellis, living arbor, upper crosspiece, lower crosspiece, center upright, lattice pieces, small trellises, propagate from seed, bottom crosspiece, two crosspieces, trellis designs, large trellis, fan pieces, side uprights, simple trellis, flexible wood, basic rectangle, willow cuttings, native cedar, pipe hanger, trellis structure, root divisions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Bentwood Fences, Decorative Trellis Designs, Mississippi Valley, Making the Basic Trellis, Trellises Without Bentwood, New York, Enjoying Your Bentwood Structures, New England, Nova Scotia, North Carolina, British Columbia New!
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My love for bentwood started in early childhood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bentwood gates, bentwood projects, second crosspiece, basic trellis, living arbor, upper crosspiece, lower crosspiece, center upright, lattice pieces, small trellises, propagate from seed, bottom crosspiece, two crosspieces, trellis designs, large trellis, fan pieces, side uprights, simple trellis, flexible wood, basic rectangle, willow cuttings, native cedar, pipe hanger, trellis structure, root divisions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Bentwood Fences, Decorative Trellis Designs, Mississippi Valley, Making the Basic Trellis, Trellises Without Bentwood, New York, Enjoying Your Bentwood Structures, New England, Nova Scotia, North Carolina, British Columbia New!
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- Welcome to My Garden by Emma L. Cross on page 66, and page 67
- The Feng Shui Garden: Design Your Garden for Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Gill Hale in Back Matter
- Making Bent Willow Furniture (Rustic Home Series) by Brian Cameron in Back Matter
- The Feng Shui Garden (Practical Gardening) by Gill Hale in Back Matter
- Peterson Field Guide(R) to Medicinal Plants (Peterson Field Guides) by Steven Foster on page 143
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