We have a local 'Forge. Imagine most placed have their own local wrought iron shops that make custom fences, burglar bars, anything you want. Local guy stocks tons of fancy curly things and just about anything imaginable for making those square bars have a style. If they dont have it they can order tons of fancy stuff or just make a template or mold and make it them selfs. Local guy sends every thing once completed to the hot dip tank. Galvanize then a prep process for primer and paint after. Might do powder coating. Havent been through their shop in years. Young upstart company here, started during the 50's, but they seem to be old fashioned quality.

Although HMF notes GT as very disease resistant, a grafted potted GT planted here in central Virginia suffered repeated bouts of blackspot in this no spray garden & died off after several years. Perhaps I just got a bum specimen, but I've not been tempted to replace it after that experience, having read some reports on the Roses Forums that it blackspots in some gardens despite spraying. You may want to ask specifically about other gardeners' results with GT in hot & humid conditions. Golden Celebration, another golden yellow Austin, has grown happily here for 8 years. Also bought grafted & potted, it didn't begin to throw climbing canes till its second year. It blooms profusely & nearly continuously (new buds swelling as others are blooming) in large sprays off many laterals, offers solid perfume, and sets hips if not deadheaded in the Fall. This one's held upright within an obelisk & arches through the crossbars, but believe it could easily be trained along a fence. Without pruning, its canes are now 8'+ in arching length & would be longer trained horizontally. Very little & ocassional blackspot problems, confined to lower leaves that I just strip off when it occurs & it quickly replaces them with clean fresh ones. Mine is planted where it gets good air circulation, the branches don't much intermingle with other roses & the support is metal. Interlaced along a wooden fence for dense coverage, it might be more apt to spot, or not. Ask for others' reports if you're drawn to this one. You might consider Kordes' Golden Gate (KORgolgat) for your fence. At a distance, very similar effect as Graham Thomas. On my radar for several years, found two grafted 3-gallons last Spring & brought them home for tryout. Intended for either side of an existing arch in a long hedge, needed to shift the plants next to the arch prior to planting, so repotted them into 15-gallons & kept them where I could observe them closely in the meantime. (Hot Summer. Still in pots. First on my to-do list when we get a mild spell that's not wet. Likely better for the hedge plants & roses to accomplish when both are dormant, and certainly easier on me.) Golden Gate arrived in bud & bloom at 5', put on another 3' before cold set in & still holds a good amount of green leaves at the beginning of February. It bloomed in rapid repeat with snap-deadheading deep into Autumn, each round of blooms fuller & more numerous as it grew, increasing also in the perfume punch that won the Prix de Parfum Paris in '08. No disease at all, reflecting the ADR awarded in '06. Blooms held fresh a good while before dropping their petals cleanly (except in heavy rain when wet petals didn't shed till they dried again), flowers were unmarred by rain, didn't ball in the wet and were produced in both heat & cool. Given no support, the canes arched as they gained height & laterals sprouted & bloomed. Only a preliminary report after 9 months not yet in the ground, but Golden Gate certainly looks promising. Searching its registration name of KORgolgat turns up reports from Europe where it's been available longer than the US. I'm betting it will reach 10-12' or higher, and trusting the 3-4' width grown upright against a support. Some sources include it for fences, as well as arbors, trellises & pergolas. In the link below, the height/width is backwards. Included because it links to Palantine & Newflora, give the Newflora site a minute to cycle through the three photos, or click the dots under the main photo to see each one. Here is a link that might be useful: Golden Gate

The gap is about 4-5 inches. Since we live next to a field, the mice just naturally tend to come by. We do have garbage bins in our backyard, however we do not put anything in the bins until it is time for the garbage to be picked up. We had a rodent in our gutters about 2 weeks ago, which I assume eventually left as I no longer hear it. Additionally, about 6 months ago we saw a mouse climb into our wall and we don’t know what happened to it as we never saw it again.

I see there's actually a Wikipedia page on PNW windstorms. Above this recounting (below) of certain specific events is a table at that page of how often each level of windiness typically occurs. Notable Pacific Northwest windstorms[edit] 1880: Great Gale of 1880 1921: January 29, the Great Olympic Blowdown. 1962: Columbus Day Storm began life as tropical storm Typhoon Frieda/Freda. 1979: February 13 windstorm leads to the catastrophic failure of the Hood Canal Bridge. 1981: Friday the 13th Windstorms, November 13–15[4] 1990: November 22–24, Mercer island bridge sinking Washington state[5] 1993: Inauguration Day windstorm, January 20. Claimed five lives, 750,000 homes and businesses without power with total damage in western Washington of $130 million.[6] 1995: December 11–12[7] 2002: South Valley Surprise of 2002 2006: Hannukah Eve windstorm[8] 2007: Great Coastal Gale of 2007 2013: Remnants of Typhoon Pabuk on September 28-29, 2013 caused heavy rain in Portland, Oregon had the wettest September ever on record. 2015: August 29–30 windstorm knocking out power to 710,000 customers in British Columbia's Lower Mainland region. Several municipalities in Metro Vancouver were without power for three days; at the time it was the largest outage in BC Hydro's recorded history.[9][10] 2016: Ides of October storm, Typhoon Sondga transitioned into an extratropical storm as it crossed the North Pacific and approached the west coast of North America. Originally, expected to be a historic windstorm to make a direct hit on Washington State, the worst of the storm ended up staying offshore. Despite this, coastal regions reported winds as high as 100 mph and an EF-2 tornado touched down in Manzanita.[11] 2018: December 20th, as winds approached (and occasionally exceeded) 100 km/h, trees came down, high seas cancelled ferries and over 750,000 customers in British Columbia lost power; causing the largest outage in BC Hydro's recorded history.[12] One man needed to be rescued by helicopter from the damaged White Rock Pier and a woman was killed in Duncan after being struck by a tree.[13] 2020: January 31st-February 1st, an intense low pressure system brought heavy rain to Metro Vancouver, Washington State and strong winds in the Fraser Valley and over 13,000 customers in British Columbia lost power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest_windstorm#:~:text=%20Notable%20Pacific%20Northwest%20windstorms%20%201%201880%3A,bridge%20sinking...%207%201995%3A%20December%2011%E2%80%9312%20More%20