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Pool Noodle Garden Arch
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How-To
If you like easy ideas and you need an arch in your garden or for a party, this project is for you.
We call this the fairy tale garden arch. The best part is that it's weather-proof and can be a permanent decoration in your garden.
It's also light weight so you can move it easily to find just the right spot or cement it into place as we did.
We used an ordinary garden arch which we assembled with Liquid Nails Glue. The green pool noodles were purchased from a 'dollar store.' The green color will blend with the garden if paint chips off over time.
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Make sure your pool noodles are the type that have a hollow center. We used eight noodles which we marked with a pen and a ruler straight down the sides.
They were very easy to cut with a utility knife.
Look! This type of noodle is hollow inside, perfect for fitting over the arch frame.
We wrapped the noodles around the frame in no time.
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We weren't sure this would work, but it was so easy!
We covered the outside of the frame. The cross pieces are left uncovered for a thick-thin effect.
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We used brown caulk to cover our flower boxes with a bark-like texture. They look so real and they are waterproof too!
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Garden Arch, continued
There's a gap by the cross pieces which could be filled with vinyl caulk. We closed most of the gaps with the rope trim.
We used more Liquid Nails to glue the noodles back together with temporary blue tape over night.
The only tricky part was flipping the arch over to do the second side.
We added this green rope twist effect on all the legs to add texture.
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It's durable and weather-proof and looks exactly as we hoped!
How We Finished and Anchored the Garden Arch
We left a couple of inches uncovered on each leg so that this will be easy to cement into place.
We sunk four square flower pots into the ground, filled them with dry concrete, set up the arch with the metal legs inserted in the concrete, then added water to the concrete. By the next day we had a permanent installation that can withstand wind and climbing cats.
We spray painted the arch using several shades of Rust-Oleum brown matte for plastic. Some of the green foam shows through and looks a lot like moss.
By May, the rose canes needed a lot of management to get them to grow over the arch.
These gloves are indispensable for working with roses. They are leather.
This grabber stick is great for managing the climbing rose canes.
We've had this arch for a year and it withstood snow and wind with no problem. Even curious cats.
How about some clematis for this fairy tale arch? We're looking for just the right shade.
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