Why choose a Copper Arbor over a Wooden Arbor?
About 28 years ago, I helped my mother build an arbor out of wood. We bought some plans and then went to the lumber yard to get all the supplies. That was the easy part. She worked a regular job, and I went to school, so this project would have to be done on the weekends. After four weekends, we constructed and painted her beautiful wooden arbor. We decided to plant a climbing rose and in four years time, it fully covered the arbor. What a beautiful addition to our garden. About eight years after construction, we noticed that the arbor was leaning and pulling the rose out of the ground. Upon investigation, we noticed that the wooden legs and some of the lattice was rotted and needed replacing. The arbor needed some serious repair work and the only way to do this was to cut the rose and replace the rotted pieces. We both looked at each other and agreed that we never want this to happen again. We thought that there must be an alternative to wood. My mother suggested a metal arbor that wo
