How to Build a Rose Pillar
Rose pillars are garden structures that come in many shapes and sizes. There are rose pillar domes, rose pillar pedestals and simpler designs, like a pillar with extended arms. Each design has the same function, encouraging roses to grow up along the pillar, covering it in greenery and rose buds. If you want a custom rose pillar for your outdoor garden, you can build one yourself without having to settle for a pre-fabricated pillar. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Gloves
- Post-hole diggers
- 4-by-4-inch pressure-treated lumber
- Shovel
- Gravel
- Fine sand
- Hose
- Drill
- Drill bit, 3/4-inch
- Wood glue
- 16 wood dowels, 36-inches long, 3/4 inch diameter
- Rubber mallet
- Twine
Instructions
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Put on gloves to protect your hands. Fetch post-hole diggers and dig a hole about 8 inches wide by 24 inches deep.
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Stand a 4-by-4-inch pressure-treated lumber beam in the middle of the hole and shovel in gravel, surrounding the lumber and nearly filling the hole. Shovel in fine sand thereafter and wet the sand and gravel with a hose, pushing the fine sand down into the gaps between the gravel.
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Shovel in more sand to fill the hole completely. This will make the lumber pillar sturdy while also allowing rainwater to run into the ground, watering the rose's roots.
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Insert a 3/4-inch bit into the drill. Drill 16 holes into the lumber pillar, putting one hole on each of the four sides of the post, spacing each ring of four about 1 1/2 feet apart.
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Squirt wood glue into one of the top holes, and insert a 3/4-inch wood dowel into the hole. Tap in with a rubber mallet, then move to the next hole. Squeeze glue into the next hole on the same level and fit another dowel into it. Insert the dowels from the top row to the bottom row until all sixteen are attached to the pillar.
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Wind twine from the bottom "arms" of the pillar up to the top, tying the twine off at one of the top arms. Plant your roses at the bottom of the pillar and intertwine the stems with the pillar twine to make the roses grow up along the rose pillar.
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