Laundry Trellis'

The wife and I grew tired of the same old same old t-shaped clothes line support structures that I had built over the years and eventually having them either rot away or simply become week and not very sturdy. We bit the bullet the last time we needed to replace them and sprung for cedar and I built these really nice trellis structures that should last quite a long time. I started by digging down deep into the ground and lining the holes with rigid plastic piping and then set the trellis legs into them and filled them with stone dust that will (1) firmly hold the legs in place and (2) allow drainage so that water doesn't continually remain around the bottoms of the legs and eventually lead to rot. The stone dust packed down very firmly and after a number of years now being out there, the structures are as solid as ever!

As you can see by the picture, I have hostas planted below them and in the springtime, I plant some kind of climbing vine that eventually covers the lattice work and provides a beautiful scene in the yard and makes it much more pleasant for Karen when she is out there hanging clothes to dry.