I believe Ipe is used extensively for garden furniture in the UK.

Don
On 2021-12-04 2:09 p.m., scritch wrote:
> I was told that ipe in the Puget Sound climate will last 50 years with no
treatment!  I made a deck table for my wife out of some 1x6 ipe and the only
change I see in it after 10 years outside is a bit of graying.
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