OOPS! It said it didn't take my link, but it apparently took both of them! I'm such a techno-peasant!

Now that's a good idea...you have got me thinking

GREAT Idea!!! LUV the butterfly too!!! I could see this with bean strings or strings for vines to wind up...kinda like a May Pole!!!

I love that! I was going to drill a hole through the post and run rebar through it. Yours is MUCH prettier!

AUGH! Back to the drawing board! I came in to post the pic of my new pole, and when I went back out, all the planters were on the ground and the wheel had totally come apart!

OK, so I kind of wondered if the wheel would work, so for the record NO, wooden wheels from Harbor Freight won't work for this project. NOW if only I can find a metal wheel!!!

UGH, g'thyme! Ya didn't listen to me! Do you have any junk yards, antique stores or such around there? These old metal wheels last FOREVER! Good luck! ... good idea for your hanging plants & looks like you've been working hard in your gardens! TFS! Jeanne S.

Well, I'm sorry it didn't work out, the butterfly on top was perfect and its a great idea! What I really want to thank you for is the picture in general. I used to live in Everett, and that pine tree in the background with that gorgeous blue sky and those familiar PNW clouds just gave me a nice warm fuzzy!
Hope you can find a metal wheel!!!

actually that's a huge cedar tree but it's still very much like the series "Here Come The Brides"...way back, depicting Seattle in the 1900's
those cedar branches are coveted at Christmas time...
there are bootleggers in the hills, cutting tree branches that ruin the retail price of prime trees, that the tree farmers are ready to shoot on sight. or in the darkness, when they sneak in, like cockroaches....
the farmers grow them for garlands, wreaths, and table center pieces, for sale.

You're right Jeanne, I just HAD to try it with the wooden wheel...because I had the wooden wheel. Tomorrow I've got a couple places I want to check out that might have metal ones. Wish me luck!

Kelly-o...It's always nice to give somebody a peek at memories! Yup, nothing like the blue skies here in Washington...or is it just because we see it so seldom we just appreciate it all the more!

And, to my porcelain-painting, tree identifying garden junking "neighbor"...any suggestions as to where to look for a metal wheel if the places I'm trying now don't work out??? There's an old man who calls himself "The Old Geezer" that's out by the Oly Airport who makes cool creations out of junk metal pieces (ever see his stuff?)...I've considered hiring him to make me something to put on the post, but think it might be too expensive!

aww, and it looked so great! you'll find a metal one...i'm sure of it! ask on freecycle,too :D good luck!
kudzu

Well, it looked great while it lasted!! Would an old bike wheel work? Maybe not wide enough! Looks like you do some serious gardening in your back yard. The butterfly was so cool!! Hope you find a replacement soon. My mom just ordered an up-side down tomato holder so looks like I will be potting 1 up soon. Jan

It looked great while it worked! I'm so sorry to hear the wooden wheel didn't work out. I sure hope you find a metal one to replace it. The butterfly was a wonderful addition! Keep us posted. :^)

Thanks for showing us-it looked wonderful!
I have a metal wheel, and a post. Now all
I need is a strong young man to use my gas
auger to dig me a hole......
Where I want to put it, there used to be a
driveway/parking lot with gravel, so it is
almost impossible to dig a hole with a shovel.

yes, I've seen the place..twice, each and every time I leave my driveway..going and coming back, if I'm headed in the direction of the airport. his yard is less than a mile from me here.
(when we say 'airport'..it's not like a regular airport one would see in their mind..it's more like a prairie, where there are coyotes, low growing wheat, grasses, sometimes a bobcat and many piper cub planes)
the area is large but the building is more like an office and a coffee house.

I know he has huge metal wheels on the fence and other things made from scraps around as free form art in the area for parking.
I'll stop in there on my way out this morning and get a good phone number.
that should be in about an hour. time right now is not quite 8:30 A.M.

Well, heck...it looked so good too! But, I'm sure you'll find a metal wheel somewhere...salvage yard, bike wheel...maybe if the bike wheel isn't big enough, you could add a cross piece of 4x4 at the top and use two bike wheels....keep trying!

How about a circular metal/chrome clothes rack. Cut off the center stand (and of course use it for something else, say maybe tippy pots or totems), then use clamps to secure the center to the post. Some stores have surplus or second hand stores may have one. Yours looked great.

Got my old radio tower up the other day and put a birdhouse on top like I had seen on here. Birds using it already. Cut back my clematis and it will twine its way up. Actually I found a bird's nest with an egg in the clematis.

Have fun.

Betty

hostarhodo....

what kind of radio tower?
I'm curious, to know....

I got four lengths of CB Radio tower at an auction last summer, planned to grow my clematis on them, but somewhere on here I saw someone had some with birdhouses on top and so I did the same. Looks great.

My 6 year old GD climbed the one I put up last year, just like monkeybars, I held on and she put a copper butterfly on top for me.

Think I will try one for my wisteria and the other will be an old fashioned climbing rose.

Betty

well, that's one good way to use an antenna...
I used to have a dipole next to the house for ham radio.
if I still had it, that would have made a great support for some high climbing vine..however,I didn't know much of anything about climbing plants at that time though.

I have the one sturdy swing set that I still think about putting wisteria up against each of the four support legs but other times, I think I want it for a green house.
I never can make up my mind for sure, so that's why I have so many potted plants. it's anyone's guess, where plants could end up in the yard.
after 29 years at this place, you'd think I'd have more of a decided design in the yard and garden.

Becky

Oh Becky. I love the idea of using a swing set as a base for wisteria. I just got this big swingset off Craigs List, and the people even delivered it! I was kind of shocked to see how BIG it was. It's 3 sections long for heaven's sake. I was going to make one swing seat big enough for a couple people to sit on for in my garden, but this one would seat 10 people!

I've tried to pass it on to a couple of people with small children, but both already had swingsets.

I'm going to have to look around for a place that "needs" wisteria!!! That would be lovely once the swingset is hidden by the vines! I can see it as the entry into a garden room! I'm going to take a walk around the yard today and see if I can find a place to use this idea! How much sun does wisteria need??? I'll have to look that up!

wow, I brought home a wheel from TX of my dads....And I have square plastic? poles that I could use....my question is....your pots...you used regular pots and put holes in the sides????

Twomonths...Yes, I used a hole bit and drilled holes in the sides and bottom of the pots where I planted strawberries and just in the bottom of the ones where I planted tomatoes.