A few weeks ago I mentioned how I bought Lee-Ann a rose (rose in a bag) as she wanted a rose garden. So this weekend I knocked up the first one, we will see how that goes and maybe build some more. The position for the garden is right outside our dining room window facing north – as you will see in the photo it is right on the hard clay as well, so it was to be a raised bed.

Looking around what we had, some pieces of paneling, probably not enough but next to the fence some left over wood from the house. A single row of these thou would not make for a very high raised bed, so I would need to join two of them. And then make a frame for the garden bed itself.

The size I decide would be 3×1 and it should hold 5 rose bushes comfortably. I would join two pieces together by nails, hammering the nail half way in the first one, cutting the head of the nail off with some pliers and then ‘hammering’ the top plank in.

The wood with the nail half in

Taking the head off

Nail with the head removed

Now the rose bed put together

The garden bed being filled up

Completed rose bed – there is now some mulch on to and we plan to get two more roses

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