Make a Trellis Out of an Old Box Spring

By

azthyme

I made a trellis for a climbing jasmine out of a dog crate that I no longer used.

By Lynda (Guest Post)

Great idea! I did the same thing with an old headboard...but ACCIDENTALLY. A large Carolina Star Jasmine Vine had overgrown and had been braced up well, so we thought, by a painter of our house. I had intended to set the old but still good heavy wooden headboard out for garbage pick up on another day, so I leaned it up on the two weaking pipes hammered into the ground tied together with long nylon rope, in hopes that it would keep the Vine more like a bush when pruned. It worked for a single season and I began trying to get the pipes straight beneath it, noticing that the old heavily stained with laquer wooden headboard had been leaned at just the right position to begin supporting the posts FOREVER as they leaned together...AND hold the Vine, combined to make a sort of hidden low trellis which the Vine loves and blooms it's healthy heart out each year now. A true "secret Flower B E D! lol I'll keep watch for an old bed spring to tackle next time I need one and am in the mood for yet another project!

By Liz (Guest Post)

Now that's recycling.
Liz

By Andrea (Guest Post)

Hi,
would you have a photo of it?
I am trying to picture it and I can't get a good image.
Thanks a lot and have a great holiday season,
Andrea

By Elaine (Guest Post)

Do you have pictures? Would be helpful to see them.

By

Cyinda

If it's made of steal, I bet it will look even better when it rusts! ... Plus it'll add iron to your soil!