Garden Arch

Another project recently has been the construction of a Garden arch - using some wrought iron railing as the basis of the uprights. These came from our daughter's place when they were renovating and I just knew they would come in handy!
As they were only about 1.8m long I constructed a plint of rocks with concrete infill to set the old rails into an upright position. The rest of the construction was 100x38mm treated pine - uprights and plates for the roof  structure.  The roof structure was made from some recycled 75x 38mm hardwood  with pine battens to finish. Setting the roof up  was interesting - I set  the ridge board up on a couple of temporary bits of timber running between each upright and then attached each rafter (there were only 6) 
We plan on planting hoya or some other climber to grow over it.  This arch marks the start of a gravel track leading to the frog pond and down into the front part of our garden

The Fraser Island creeper (Tecomanthe hillii) is in flower in the foreground