Twig Construction

Creative garden artists have find ways to make use of the smaller branches from red cedar, white cedar, and more recently, some of our most invasive exotics such as black locust and asiatic bittersweet.  Here we have used locust twig to build a rustic picket fence that even meets the code for pool enclosure!

Black Locust

A favorite building material is Black Locust–a hardwood native to the mid-Atlantic region but now spread across the range due to its being planted to grow for fence posts, etc.  Ironically it has not become an invasive plant in many parts of the country.

Here we have used Black Locust to frame and deck a footbridge, and Red Cedar to build the handrails.

Arbors, gazebos, pergolas, decks, fencing, footbridges and planters are just some of the custom structures Webster-Ingersoll designs and builds in-house. Native, rot-resistant woods such as Black Locust and Red Cedar are a specialty.

Here we have climbed and curved this panel fence to provide a tasteful screen in knotty cedar with black locust posts.