Queen's Wreath as an arbor cover
It goes up a wire mesh (remesh), flops across the top mesh and drapes down the other side next to the house By the end of summer some of the strands were to the ground and it was a cool green tunnel.
It's not hard to remove: clip along the edges or the top mesh and it rolls up like a messy rug.
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newtoucan
8 years agodustdevil13
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MaryMcP Zone 8b - Phx AZ
8 years agolazy_gardens
8 years agoBecause the arbor is about 30 feet long, we used a 60" roll of concrete reinforcing mesh welded wire. I'll take better pics when I get to Phoenix.
One strip runs along the side of the arbor, covering from the top to about 3 feet from the ground (gives me room to garden underneath) the other runs across the top beams of the arbor, with about a foot gap on each side.
I run strings up from ground level to the wire mesh to get the vines up there - there are big screw eyes on either side of the uprights for this. When the vines reach the wire they spread out fast and have no problem finding the top wire mesh.
Armenian cucumber on the trellis ... it was fast coverage.
grant_in_arizona
8 years agogrant_in_arizona
8 years agohariphx z9A Arizona
8 years agoNice pic, lazy_gardens. I was wondering how many queen's wreath vines you have for that arbor cover. I have one queens wreath vine, 5-6 years old growing over small tree, it hasnt spread
out like i expected it to.
lazy_gardens
8 years ago
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