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Making Bentwood Trellises, Arbors, Gates & Fences (Rustic Home Series)
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About Making Bentwood Trellises, Arbors, Gates & Fences
Product Description Turn discarded branches from your routine pruning into sturdy and beautiful bentwood projects for your lawn and garden. With Jim Long’s easy step-by-step instructions for creating durable fences and picturesque trellises from salvaged tree limbs, you’ll be inspired to build your own unique landscape features. Add life to your creation with one of many suggested climbing plants and watch as your structure becomes a vibrant, blooming sculpture. You’ll soon be enjoying a lazy afternoon resting in the dappled shade of your homemade bentwood arbor. Amazon.com Review 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 Review "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 From the Back Cover Nothing combines natural beauty and functionality more gracefully than a rustic bentwood trellis, arbor, gate, or fence for your garden. With the simple step-by-step instructions in Making Bentwood Trellises, Arbors, Gates & Fences, you'll learn how to collect limbs from a wide variety of native trees as a part of routine 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. There are even designs that don't require bentwood, including a Craftsman-style arbor made of driftwood. A list of vining plants to grow on your trellis or arbor is also included. About the Author Co-owner of Long Creek Herb Farm in Oak Grove, Arkansas, Jim Long is also an herbalist, author, landscape designer, and syndicated gardening columnist. His business and gardens have been featured in Gourmet, Southern Living, Better Homes & Gardens' Deck & Landscape Planner, Country Garden, and many other magazines, and he has written articles for Organic Gardening, Garden Design, and The Business of Herbs, among others. His “Ozarks Gardening” syndicated column appears in newspapers in Missouri and Arkansas. Additionally, Long has been a regular contributor for the popular “Down to Earth” column for The Herb Companion and has taught adult education classes on herbs and writing for Southwest Missouri State University and Drury Community College. He is a member of the Herb Growers and Marketers Network, the Herb Society of America, the Garden Writers Association of America and The Author’s League. He lives on the Missouri-Arkansas border in the heart of the Ozark Mountains and is the author of Making Bentwood Trellises, Arbors, Gates & Fences.
