Gardens Outdoor Fine Woodworking

Facing

Horizontal

support

13-ft.-long

2x6 crossbeam

10-ft.-long

4x4 post

Post sunk below

frost line

Post

Facing

Trelliswork

Lag screw

Crossbeam

Brace

Lag screw

A home for climbing plants

Wenner used pressure-treated lumber for all of the arbor components. Posts should be treated because they are sunk into the ground,

but cedar or redwood are good alternatives for the other arbor parts.

Photos, except where noted: Frances Wenner; drawings: Bob La Pointe 

•   Fourteen    10-ft.-long 4x4  posts

•   Thirty-six  8-ft.-long  2x4s    for  horizontal supports,

facings,    and  trelliswork    on   the     arbor  back

•   Two     11-ft.-long 2x4s    for  the     trelliswork

on   the     end     posts

•   Nineteen    13-ft.-long 2x6  crossbeams

•   Thirty-eight    2x2  vertical   braces—24   cut  to     

7 -^1 ⁄ 2 -in.   lengths,   14   cut     to  10-in. lengths

•   Fifty-one   1x2  slats  for  trelliswork    in   varying

lengths between 5   and 6   ft.

What you’ll need

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