Hi again it's Jason from Fraser Valley Rose Farm
well today i'm going to talk about pillaring a rose that's training a rose
up a post or a pole or a support that's just
straight up vertical and this is the contraption i've put together
to try to train my roses onto a pillar now there is some method to training the
roses but the first thing i want to talk to you about is how to put together
this style of support for a pillar and i'll go step by step through the process
just in case you want to build something just like this i'll give you a good look
at the material i'm using this black pipe you see here is 1 3 8
inch chain link fence top rail and as you can
see here i've used it before in one of my
projects in the yard this is my rose arbor that i put
together a couple years ago to support the roses along the back of
my rose garden and it served the purpose really well
what i found is it's a nice adaptable material
very solid very sturdy holds up to the elements well
and it will even take a bend in it or it will take flattening on the end so
i can piece it together so i found a really good material to
work with in the current project my needs are much simpler i won't have to
bend it but it does have one other feature the
way it locks together that i found really useful and keeps the
project really simple so the way they've manufactured these
pipes for easy assembly as a top fence rail
is that this one here is the full diameter but this end here
they've made a narrower diameter diameter they've sort of pinched it in
so that when you want to fit it together you just slide it in like this
and it's easy to assemble like that so i'm going to use that to my advantage
for this project insofar as i'm having a two-piece
assembly the bottom end that's sticking out of
the ground will be open like this and the top side will
have will be made from this end so that when i want to slide it together
it's nice and easy to do so now i'm not going to dig down 10 feet
that's the total length of these rails when they
come to me from the store so now i'm going to take this end here
and i'm going to grind it down by half so i'm going to cut it in half with my
grinder
and with that done i'll just use a metal file here
to clean up any crazy sharp edges so that i don't end up
inadvertently cutting myself on this end so here's one support
already sunk into the ground i have six in total to do for this project
so i'll show you in a second how i got this so firm i've got it with some
concrete on the bottom i also have it buried in and i leveled
it in all the directions so that when i
place that top portion of the post on i'll have a nice support a nice straight
support to put my roses onto well this being a gardening channel i
won't spend too much time telling you how to
dig a hole because i'm sure you're familiar with how to do that
but this particular hole i'm digging down to a depth of about two feet
okay with the hole dug time to pound it in a little bit it is
handy for this stage to have an extra pair of hands somebody
to hold it for you well you pounded on it and you can see
from the level there that i'm just trying to keep it
level in all directions so this is quite vertical by the time i'm finished
i'm pounding it down with a piece of wood
and a mallet or a hammer and that way i don't bend the
post out of shape
and good to check as you're doing it that the level is good this way
and that also the level is good this way let's come up this way a little
more there you go and then post it in
until it's nice and steady in the ground remember of course that i'll be putting
concrete across the bottom as well after this
so it doesn't have to be entirely firm in the ground
just with the pounding
all mixed now i'm going to put some in the bottom of that hole
and this hole is not all that wide so it's probably going to take in total
less than half a bag of concrete
to get a stable base around
and here at one of my other posts where the concrete has already dried
i've just back filled with the soil and i continue to tamp down
and firm this in for additional support
so you can see that i've taken a large black pot here i've slid it over top of
this post i drilled a hole in the bottom of the pot
and the reason i'm doing that is because i want to grow my pillar roses
in a container which of course you can do you can grow climbers and pillar
roses in a container so long as you provide enough soil in
the container and i think that this will be sufficient
for my needs the reason i'm doing it doesn't have a
lot to do with this project just this area of my yard is over top of
a septic field so i'd rather have the shrubs and trees
grown in containers rather than directly in the ground so that their
adventuring little roots don't cause any damage to the septic system
on a side note though it is kind of advantageous in this case because
even though this is well supported underneath the ground placing this in
here and then putting it filling it with soil
is going to provide that rose with additional support and i do
need the additional support here we get some severe winds coming out from
the east in the winter and usually some from the south
in summer and so a tall rose on a big post
is definitely going to catch that wind so the more supported
the better i'd like to add some horizontal supports to my
pillars and so i've got this conduit here this is electrical conduit
again easily available in your hardware store the only thing i've done to it is
i've cut it down to about 20 inches in length
and that's just an eyeball measurement what i thought would look
good on my pillars and the other thing i've done is in the middle here
i've just squished it down in the vise to make it a little bit easier to drill
down now to attach that to the verticals i'm going to drill a
hole and i'm going to put it in with a self-tapping screw so i've just chosen
the drill bit that will make it fit the self tapping screw that i've chosen
and
and drilled straight through
and just before i attach them to the verticals
i'm just going to throw a couple of coats of black paint on here just so
they match a little bit nicer having painted the horizontal supports
now i'm going to attach them to the vertical posts now i've
chosen to drill this or pre-drill this to about every 18 inches so that i can
have a support wherever i need it for my
roses and i'm putting it in with a self-tapping screw i've only put
a small pilot hole into the main bar and we'll
see how this goes
and that has it just about right now full disclosure here because we're
attaching it just with a single pivot point there
this has some room to maneuver there and i think that has
the potential to not support the roses as well as it
should but what i will do with this now that
it's in place is i'll probably just secure it with some zap straps
across there just to hold it exactly where i want it
final step of assembly and quite possibly the easiest is just taking this
fully assembled top portion with the crossbars already attached and
sliding it down into that secured post i have on the
bottom very likely what i'll do after this
is just take a couple self-tapping screws and zap them into that bottom peg
just to keep it quite stably attached all right let me give you a look at it
up and down all right that's where it slides in
and looking up and down here you can see that the crossbars i've intentionally
rotated them around and yes it is a tall beast probably
in total about 12 feet so it's going to support a tall pillar rose
and the reason i've rotated the horizontal bars
around it is so that as i wind my rows up and down
i can sort of twist it around this pole sort of
oh i'm going to call it barber pull style and uh
let me show you uh at least the first step
of that i have a rose that might be ready to begin training onto this
trellis now
so i'm going to test how much bend i can put into this
and if i could loop this around and underneath like this
i think i would do that but i don't think the rose will take it i think once
i try to twist it back up this way i'm going to break that stem
so the best i can do right now is to just bend this
up and around and as i did that i did end up snapping off that very top
portion of growth up there so that's not an early victory but i've
got lots of time to work on training this and the point of this
is to as much as you can try to train it around and put some s-loops or put some
bends and try to get some horizontal sections
the more horizontal it is the more likely it is that lateral
shoots will break out from those nodes and give
you flowers all the way up and down that stem
okay well i've got five more of these to build so i'll get to work on that
that's it from me on how to build a pillar style support to show off your
climbing roses i'll be revisiting the topic a little
bit when i have a little more rows to work with so i can show you some
training tips as well thanks for watching if you have any
questions please leave those below the video