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Those among you who have visited our stately pile may recall a mound in the middle of our back garden. More tumour than tumulus, it has been, along with 4 sacks of cobbles which never got emptied out, a monument to the moment when a disc in my back gave up the unequal struggle with gravity and popped.

Well, we no longer have the mound, where it used to be is flat, flattish anyway, earth, awaiting grass seed.

So, a call for the combined counsel of the gardening gurus and other lunatics among you. I want to erect a reed screen. How do I make it curve? I would really like crinkle crankle, something like this, but it won’t be long enough.

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7 responses to “Curves”

  1. T-bird avatar
    T-bird

    is this a free standing screen or a “masking a plain old fence” screen? The latter is easier to make crinkly, you just put spacers between teh fence and the screen so sometimes you are fixing to fence and sometimes to a spacer and hey presto it crinkles.

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  2. HelenHaricot avatar
    HelenHaricot

    you get a sensible asnwer from bid. i was going to suggest jax and big weave it for you. bound to be crinkled then 😉

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  3. Tim avatar
    Tim

    Free standing, built from scratch.

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  4. HelenHaricot avatar
    HelenHaricot

    sensibly, since you’re leaving ‘n all. i would carefully work out the arcs on the ground, put strong supporting posts along a straight line, and then smaller supporting posts at maximal distanc frm to help hod your arc, then dig the arcs, fill with concrete and set the reeds into them. then lob al those cobbles to set n the concrete and hide it- great job for the kids.

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  5. HelenHaricot avatar
    HelenHaricot

    my major concern is since the proper fence blew down, so may this reed screen, as not very strong.

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  6. Tim avatar
    Tim

    It will need to be firmly supported. I think the best way to do it would be with a two curved steel horizontal bars to lace the screen to. But, as you say, since we don’t plan to stay, I don’t fancy the cost of getting them custom made. I will probably end up just doing in a zig zag.

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  7. Alison avatar
    Alison

    Congrats on the successful tumourectomy!

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