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A garden over head??

castorp
15 years ago

Basically what I'm thinking about is making a kind of irregular, open pergola-like structure that would run zig-zag throughout my tiny citrus area, and over my patio, and allow me to have a kind of garden over head.

My inspiration is the frames used Italian lemon groves (see link below). However the frame I have in mind would be more irregular, less grid like.

I would use it to hang hanging baskets and bird houses and lights and such, and I would grow vines up the support posts. Where I wanted vines overhead I would run wires. Where I wanted it open and sunny I would leave it open.

Is there a name for a structure like this? Have any of you ever seen it done before?

I'm probably going to try to built it out of conduit rather than wood because of rot problems here. I'm a bit iffy about the engineering of the thing.

Any information or ideas will be appreciated. I would especially like to find examples of this kind of garden structure.

Thanks!

Bill

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:603605}}

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