Patent ID: 7941967

Claim:
A method of producing an ornamental tree comprising the steps of: bending a first length of hot rolled steel bar to define a trunk member of a tree frame; bending second lengths of hot rolled steel bar to include a vertical section, a first horizontal section and a second horizontal section; welding the vertical section of each of the second lengths to a bottom portion of the trunk member, and the second lengths defining feet members of the tree frame; placing a planting pot on top of the feet members with the trunk member extending up through a bottom of the pot and vertically above the pot; bending third lengths of hot rolled steel bar to resemble branches of a tree; welding the third cut lengths to the trunk member at spaced intervals above the pot to define branch arms of the tree frame; filling the planting pot with soil; planting flowering vine plants in the pot and braiding vines of the plants upwardly about the trunk member and out onto the branch arms; periodically trimming the vines on the trunk member to remove foliage; and allowing foliage of the flowering vine plants to grow and bloom on at least a portion of the branch arms.