Wooden structures can be used in the garden to provide support for plant material and to define the elements of "outdoor rooms;" the trellis becomes a wall, the arbor a door, the pergola a roof - a gazebo combines all of these. The design of these features should take into account probable weight loads from plants, natural forces of wind, moisture and sun and the properties of the wood itself. Including wooden structures in the landscape offers us the opportunity to recycle material from "nature's garden" to our own.

An accomplished, creative carpenter could provide the proper design and building techniques necessary for the successful assembly of these projects. The do it yourself builder could attempt a simple trellis, and if successful, proceed to more detailed projects. Perhaps the best alternative is to purchase kits of precut materials and assemble these on site.

The following are a few examples of wooden structures:

Arbors

(above images used by permission from Trellis Structures)

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Gazebo

(above images used by permission from Vixen Hill Gazebos)

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 Pergola

(above images used by permission from Halford's Treated Pine)

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