16-03-2003, 12:56 AM
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Wind blew down trellis -- prune?
(Claire Petersky) wrote in message . com...
Last night we had a windstorm and I woke up this morning to find the
rose trellis over on its side in the garden.
Bad form to follow up on my own post, but I'll just say -- after I
went out there and looked at the situation more closely this morning,
it became clear that the top of the trellis was completely rotted
through, and had splintered when it fell over. So this was not just a
matter of righting the whole thing and setting it back to the way it
was.
The trellis was constructed such that it was nailed-together sections
that were then bolted together. It was pretty easy to unbolt those
sections. Then I had to carefully unwind each cane out of the trellis
sections and unwind them from each other.
Then, decision: buy a new trellis, or use the still-sturdy sections of
the trellis in a new config, and do something different. I ended up
with the second of these two options. I used three of the four
latticed panels to make a sort of ladder up the side of the house.
Then I put a series of eye-bolts into these 2 x 8 beams that come out
of the house. Then I bound each cane to latticed panels and then used
the eye bolts to bind the canes to the 2 x 8s.
This whole project took three hours. There's a lot more that needs to
be done. There's the other rose (a Fourth-of-July? Some name like
that) that has never has done that well in that spot, and I will move
that a sunnier location tomorrow. And the clean-up has just been done
in a very spotty fashion.
Meanwhile, I didn't need to worry about the pruning, really. While it
was down, I did take out the obviously bad canes and dead wood.
However, enough canes unfortunately snapped off in the fall and then
unwinding, that the pruning is basically done.
Any other comments or suggestions well appreciated -- thanks.
Warm Regards,
Claire
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