I'm sorry to hear that! The pictures of your TG helped enable me into getting one. What about sinking a 4X4 and securing the trellis to that? I'm thinking you would use those metal conduit clamps. I hope you don't have to cut it all back, but if you do, she's such a strong grower it'll be back in no time.

Eric

Thank you for posting this as a heads up alert. I have a couple of trellis/pillars that I may try to put a 4X4 inside them to help anchor them. Come to think of it, doing so might make them harder to steal.

I had one too that made it through a lot of high winds with a massive skyflower vine on the top.......until Hurricane Ike came through last September. And down it went. It is still usable, just shorter! I have another one that I will try to anchor more securely. I was actually pleased that it made it through the storms it did, especially being so incredibly top heavy and not secured by anything other than the legs in the ground but the hurricane was just too much.

Lynn

Buford, never a dull moment, huh? Like Lynn said maybe you can salvage it. Do you think you could insert some rebar (3 pieces?) down the middle around the trellis (is the unbrella on a pole?) and wrap some big hose clamps around all the rebars & the post?

I'm sure you & DH will think of something to save the usefulness of the trellis not to mention the beauty of your TG.

Sherry

I wish I had video of me in my yellow rain slicker hanging on to the trellis for dear life as the wind went this way and that. The worst was when it was blown into me, thorns and rubber rain coats don't go well together.

I think we are going to prop it up for the summer, then try to dismantle it in the fall. I didn't really prune TG this spring and I can see there are two big old canes that maybe I want to take out. The plant itself is fine. Maybe I'll take up welding and make my own umbrella trellis.

I just bought one of these--what does everyone think is the best way to secure it? I haven't put it in the ground yet because I'm not sure how to keep it stable.

Oh buford I am so sorry you had to go through all of that, I think I can take anything, rain, snow, hail but I cannot tolerate Wind! We have howling winds right now, 25 -40 mph but not as bad as your 75 mph winds. It is so nerve racking especially when those sudden gusts come up. Last year I went through a similiar situation as you did. I was out in the pouring rain with winds gusting to 40 trying to stake down my tall Neptune bush, it was leaning and ready to snap at the base and I told myself I would stay there all night holding a rope around it if I had to, that was quite an experience, neighbors must have thought I was too crazy, LOL! oh boy the things we do for our roses, huh?

Oh my, your stories remind me of my misadventures! Lol! I hadn't really thought of telling on me, but I share your pain!
My post about climbing New Dawn tells about my arbor that came down. It had been up for three years and I never considered the possibility that it would fall! Until...65 mph wind gusts! But there I was, just as you, out there trying my best to save her! I couldn't see due to the fact of my hair blowing in my face, desperately trying to think of a way to brace her, all the while being thorned continuously! Nevertheless, winds won and she came down. :(
Seems like the past year here (Kentucky), the winds have been more violent and more frequent! Does anyone else think that too?

Shelly

The weather has just been crazy here. I don't know what to make of it.

Odessey, my trellis was secure. We pounded it into the ground about 8 inches up to the first ring. But what happened is that the legs attached to that ring broke clean off. At least 3 of them did, I'm not sure about the 4th. At this point the rose is holding the trellis up, not the other way around.

I guess I let the rose get too big and it was top heavy and it just got batted around by the winds. Since the bottom wasn't going anywhere, something had to give. If you can put it somewhere that doesn't get a lot of wind, or if you can secure it horizontally to a fence so it doesn't whip around in the wind, that might help. This one did stand up to a lot of wind, a couple of hurricanes and tornado warnings, I guess it just got weaker and weaker and then broke.

Buford, I am really sorry to hear of your mishap, especially since I have a Teasing Georgia on an identical trellis from J&P. Right now, it looks just like the picture of yours posted some time ago. It has hundreds of blooms after a severe pruning 5 weeks ago.
Well your experience makes me know what to expect. I think I will give it another severe haircut after this bloom cycle

We use metal "tee posts" in the garden alot. These are those metal posts used for fencing that you pound in with a tool we call the bonker. We often spray paint them to match what they are holding up.

I think we have a solution. By coincidence, we were in Home Depot looking for a step ladder. And we were in a different HD, so the ladders were way in the back by the building materials. I passed by where they had short lengths of rebar. Then I saw them, steel stakes about the size of rebar, but with a pointed and a flat end, one goes into the ground the other you pound on. AND they have little holes in them for threading wire through. So we bought four of the 36 inch length. We plan on hammering them into the ground next to each leg of the trellis. Then using galvanized wire, we will thread the wire through the stakes and around the legs of the trellis. I think this can be a permanent solution! I'm really excited and glad I don't have to cut up TG to get the trellis off.