Smileez: July 2011

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Green House on Main, Shédiac, N.-B.

View of the English Herb Garden and stone work. There's an interesting story about the arch in the background. One of the first thing we had to do at this job site was to move it roughly 12' from it's initial position. OK, that's easy yea, but it had a Trumpet Vine on each side. We managed to move it and saved the vines, one of them looks very healthy, the other one I'm not as confident; we'll have to wait until next summer.

I loved doing this cedar arch. The corner post are made with 6" x 6"; lateral post are 4" x 4". It's 7' cube (7' x 7' x 7') The top pieces are 2" x 6". It took me roughly 40 hrs to design, built and install.

One of the big issues we had was to save the existing vine (seen in picture). I had promises them that I would not kill it. Well, it survived. The old arch was crooked and too small so we had to support the vine, cut the old lattice install the new arch and then fasten it the the new arch. I called it the 'arch' transplant.