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Author Garden: Home made topiary frames? Cricket guest posted                 Does anyone have ideas on how to make inexpensive indoor topiary frames? I'd like to experiment with topiaries and, if successful, give topiaries as gifts next year for Christmas gifts. Seeded: 24.64.223.203 Amy R. guest posted                 hi there, i've never made a topiary frame before, but what about using wire hangers? or a spool of wire from the hardware store might be more pliable. also, if you have any leftover wires from hanging baskets, that might work. that's all i can think of, sorry. good luck! Seeded: 24.255.50.223 barleychown AV Queen Member # 1392 posted                       I have used both wire coat hangers, and the spool of wire...both work really well. My only complaint about the coat hangers is you can never get all the bends and kinks out of the wire, but if you fill it in with lots of ivy, you don't see the wire anyway! Good luck! * * * * We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are. Plants: 6287 | From: S. Lane Co., Oregon | Registered: Aug 2003  |  Seeded: 67.42.199.27 Cricket guest posted                 Thanks for the suggestions. I'll give it a try AFTER Christmas - I see by the countdown that I'm running out of time and haven't even STARTED! Bill, can you please turn the clock back?! (Hmmm...we need a "begging" graemlin!) Seeded: 24.64.223.203 Carly Garden Pro! Member # 3052 posted                       I have never seen one - but I'd sure like to try it. Guess I could start simple - a heart, or something. Thanks for posting this - I'm inspired now. * * * * When sorting seeds, do not whistle. Plants: 2784 | From: Toronto, Canada | Registered: Jul 2004  |  Seeded: 209.135.115.46 Cricket guest posted                 Thanks, Carly, a heart would be a good start! I've looked at commercial frames on the net - they are so EXPENSIVE! But I need something simple to begin with as I'm spacially impaired and don't think in 3D! Seeded: 24.64.223.203 hisgal2 Garden Pro! Member # 1875 posted                       What about a cone??? I saw on HGTV that they used a tomato cage as a sort of "base" for everything. They got terra cotta pots that were about the same size as the biggest ring in the tomato cage, then they used some silicon to adhere the largest ring of the cage to the pot (so the cage was actually upside down). I guess this is more for something that is not alive?? * * * * Plants: 2835 | From: 18626 | Registered: Feb 2004  |  Seeded: 68.82.105.188

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