Products - Rose Supports

Hand forged plant supports reproduced from Victorian designs. Fashioned in riveted wrought iron.

Aesthetically pleasing and historically accurate. The Lost Art Rose Trainer is very much in the style of the famous Victorian garden designer Harry Inigo Triggs and reflects his influence on a wide variety of garden features as well as the overall layout of gardens.

In the Victorian Garden Catalogue, this form of rose trainer is describes as being “far preferable to ordinary pea-sticks or bamboo rods, as they are never unsightly, even when the plants are growing or when the foliage begins to disappear.”

In addition to their obvious allegiance to the display of roses, these standards are easy to relocate within the garden and are suitable for other ramblers, such as sweet peas and other plants of a similar habit.

As seen in the Victorian Garden Catalogue. These items are electroplated for corrosion protection and then powder coated to provide a lasting finish.

Lost Art Limited offer a range of hand produced plant supports that have either been reproduced from original Victorian designs or adapted according to the requirements of a particular client. With the gardens of the 19th and early 20th centuries in mind, many of these will originally have been intended for the support and display of roses and are intended to display favoured specimens to their best advantage.

Providing support and display for standard roses, Lost Art’s Rose Umbrellas add interest to a formal garden design, providing both height and the potential for a focal point. Our original Victorian design complements the beauty of that most English of flowers and together they can form a magnificent centrepiece to a small garden or carry attention as part of a greater design.

Hand forged in wrought iron, and assembled using copper rivets as a means of corrosion prevention, this is an item made to last, formed from heavy gauge metal and treated using time tested methods, this is a perfect combination of classic design and methods that will stand the test of time, whilst providing visual pleasure in the chosen setting.

Such was the Victorian love of plant bearing arches, that the extensive catalogue of Garden Furniture and Ornament, published in 1910 by J.P Whyte’s Pyghtle Works of Bedford, carried no less than 14 different designs.

Our Coniston Rose Arch, a design popular through both the Victorian and Edwardian periods, will provide, height, interest and the opportunity to display climbing flowers in a decorative and effective manner, whilst transporting the visitor between different aspects of a formal garden.

Hand forged in wrought iron and then copper rivetted as a means of corrosion prevention, this is an item made to last, formed from heavy gauge metal and treated using time tested methods, this is a perfect combination of classic design and methods that will stand the test of time, whilst providing visual pleasure in the chosen setting.

The popularity of treillage in Victorian garden design knew few limits and vast amounts of catalogue space was devoted to an enormous variety of designs. In choosing the design of our rose trellis, we took into account the major factors for the inclusion of this type of plant trainer.

Highly suitable for climbing roses, they will break up the rigidity and occasionally flat appearance of a rose garden. More visually pleasing than the habit and practice of supporting climbers with sticks or poles, they are highly durable and allow for greater spread and more natural appearance of the plants themselves, besides bringing blooms to the level at which they can best be appreciated by the garden visitor. Additionally, the structures retain visual interest during those periods of the year when the foliage of the supported plants has disappeared.

Hand forged in wrought iron and then copper rivetted as a means of corrosion prevention, this is an item made to last, formed from heavy gauge metal and treated using time tested methods, this is a perfect combination of classic design and methods that will stand the test of time, whilst providing visual pleasure in the chosen setting.

Intended for the fine display of climbing roses (and other species), rose fans offer excellent support for plant branches, allowing them to spread and provide the greatest possible flowering display. For this reason, Victorian garden designers would often choose to place this and similar designs at the back of a rose bed or formal area in order to add visual interest beyond the more geometrically ordered flower beds of plants of lower lying habits.

Strongly made with good ground fixing, the rose fans are hand forged in wrought iron and then copper rivetted as a means of corrosion prevention. This is an item made to last, formed from heavy gauge metal and treated using time tested methods, this is a perfect combination of classic design and methods that will stand the test of time, whilst providing visual pleasure in the chosen setting.