The word "trellis" to me means the little old lady from North Wales who sent bizarre postcards to Humphrey Lyttleton on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue rather than the garden feature used to offer screening and a framework for climbing plants.

Suffice it to say that when I proclaim that we are going to build a trellis I do not mean to announce a robotic experiment in geriatric Mornington Crescent play.

We saw a design in Family Handyman magazine which quite caught our eye, a simple slatted bench with attached trellis-work. We need some screening in our garden to replace a recently pruned tree, and we decided to build the trellis portion with the uprights set into the ground rather than attached to the bench.

Yesterday I went and bought the wood for this project, and the plan is to build the thing over the Memorial Day weekend (24th to 26th May). It will involve mixing concrete, which will be a new one for me.

Look for the inevitable frustrated howls as I prove unable to set the posts true.

Posted by Dunx at May 12, 2008 03:35 PM