About

Students will learn all the basics for making classic trellises for their garden plants from a master cedar fence and trellis builder.

Sue Skelly is an artist with many talents, but her love of growing plants, creating beautiful gardens for herself and others, prompted her to devise her own methods of creating the garden structures she needed.

Sue will lead you through the step by step process for making a four foot tall woven cedar limb fan shaped trellis, or a gothic arch shaped trellis. 

Students will attach rebar legs to anchor their trellises in the ground. 

Sue will provide some pine cone rosettes trim that will finish this garden piece. 

Students should also bring:

• good fitting work gloves; 
• by-pass pruners; 
• 2-C Clamps with a 4”-6” opening; 
• a hammer.
  
• Bring a sack lunch.  We have a refrigerator to store food and drink!
  

Details:

• Please note that for this class, cancellations received 14 days or less before the workshop start date will not be eligible for a refund or credit.

• Skill Level: Universal --All skill levels welcome.
  
• Ages 14+ Welcome.

• There is a materials fee of $85 for all of the materials needed to construct the trellis and is included in the registration fee.

• Students should wear comfortable work clothes.

  Bring a bag lunch. BARN has a refrigerator and a microwave for your use.

  
  

Instructor Bio: On a trip to southern England, as a landscape designer gathering inspiration, Sue Skelly was impressed by the miles of wattle-brush fencing along the farms and lanes.  After returning from her trip in 1989, her relationship with Western Red Cedar began when she purchased piece of land with a beautiful mature natural forest.  This environment gave her the idea of building her own wattle fence using the abundant and renewable resource of cedar limbs.  Through trial and error she built her first woven cedar fence, and her passion for working with cedar was born.  Over the years, Sue has developed many styles and forms of art using cedar branches; some functional and some purely sculptural.  She loves the process; being in the comfort of the woods with her dogs; harvesting and preparing just the right branches for each project.  Sue is a member of the NW Basket Weavers Guild, where she has learned many weaving techniques with all parts of the Western Red Cedar tree from a community of teachers.  Sue’s Fine Art Degree and passion for making is manifested in her original Cedar art; a line of beautiful button jewelry; and in her Cedar fencing and trellis work.  Sue has been a featured artist in Martha Stewarts’ LIVING magazine, as well as in other books and publications, and her Woven Cedar Works are in public and private collections.