Old Rusted Trellis

We inherited a metal trellis from the former owners when we moved in. They left it up against the coyote fence and I tried various vines on it but, meh. The vines never grew (too much shade) and the metal structure blended into the wood of the fence, hard to even see and oddly formal against the rustic bark fence poles.

This spring I moved it. Okay, now I can see it.

The feet of the trellis had rusted away, so there is nothing to stick in the ground. It's just propped up with rocks to stabilize it away from the wall a bit. The low shrubs at the base of the wall will leaf out and hide the pile of rocks holding it up (and those black pots on the ground are things I'm going to plant.)

I'm not going to plant a vine on it. The structure alone against the wall is nice backing the redbud tree and filling the blank space. The redbud really was that pink in flower in April.

Besides, the garage wall gets full shade half the day and then gets blasted with western sun and reflected light and heat off the wall in the afternoons, so anything growing against that wall would have to be nuclear bomb proof. I'm not even going to experiment with that.

All winter I had pondered other ideas to dress that blank wall, like a rain chain from the canale in the middle of the garage wall, or a big rain barrel below it. 

I even thought about staging the bbq grill there for convenience but also to fill the space. Putting the grill right there would avoid Jim having to roll it out of the garage onto the driveway each time, but no. Besides being hulking to look at it's too near the wall, standing in bark mulch. 

Not a good site for a fire hazard.

The scrawny redbud sapling, fading pink now, needs to leaf out and gain size, and the trellis doesn't really do anything. But it's something to look at from afar. 

After all my planning and dithering, who knew the solution was to simply move an old rusted trellis from one spot to another.